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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Exu Yangi" <exuyangi@...> wrote:
>> Ya know, I normally don't reply like this, but ... before you are
quick to > dismiss co-incidence, please study statistics. It isn't
as rare as you seem > to think it is.
Good point, Exu.
Please see my Indian Lexicon which is organized in 8000 semantic
clusters.
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/html/indlexmain.htm I have proved
that over 4000 of the so-called Dravidian etyma (out of 5600+ listed
in Dravidian Etymological Dictionary) have I-A and Munda cognates.
That is something for statistics and questioning the statistics of
the DED used to prove a language family. I say that it was a
linguistic area on N-W India about 5000 years Before Present.
I would like to see alternative statistics of the etyma from Indian
languages found in, say, proto-IE to prove the frequent occurrences
of coincidences in phonemes among unrelated language families.