Re: Indus Valley script decoded?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "wtsdv" <liberty@...> wrote:
> > He has
> > even written recently of "a dialectical continuum of
> > Prakr.t, Siamese (Laua) and Tamir.. speakers, it appears
> > that the concordant parole was: milakkha" (See http://
> > groups.yahoo.com/group/IndianCivilization/message/47505).
> > In what world do Prakrit, Siamese and Tamil form a
> > "dialectical contiuum"?
>
> Royal courts? "Rachasap" to use the Thai word (rajas'apta in
> Sanskrit?) has an enormous amount of Pali in it. Lawa is an
> Austroasiatic language, whereas Siamese is Tai-Kadai (a.k.a. Daic),
> possibly as closely related to Lawa as Tamil is to Greek.

So am I to understand that the members of a dialect
continuum need not be dialects of the same language?!
How does that work? Can you also now explain to me
what "the concordant parole" of such a continuum would
be?

David