Re: [tied] Re: who are indus people?

15-03-2004 12:25, kishore mohan wrote:

> wHEN BALUCI- THE TWIN LANGUAGE OF BRAHUI AND KURDISH- CLOSELY
> CONNECTED TO BALUCI ARE INDO ARYAN, THEN HOW ON EARTH DID BRAHUI
> BECOME DRAVIDIAN?

Brahui never had to _become_ Dravidian -- it's always been that way. As
a matter of fact, no language can ever become a member of a given
family. It always _belongs_ to the same group(s) its ancestors belonged
to. Kurdish an Baluchi are Iranian languages -- neither of them is
Dardic (or Indo-Aryan, for that matter). Since Baluchi and Brahui have
for centuries been spoken in the same region, there has been a lot of
interaction between them and Brahui has been strongly influenced by
Baluchi as a result. That doesn't make it an Indo-Iranian language.

> iT IS ESSENTIALLY DARDIC. SOME WORDS OF TAMIL WILL NOT MAKE IT
> DRAVIDIAN.. THE SAME MAY BE SAID ABOUT ANDHRIAN LANGUAGE TOO...

How do you figure out it's "essentially" Dardic? It isn't "Tamil words"
that make it Dravidian. Cf.

http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/detailedlanguagerecord?ethnocode=BRH

> IN FACT, IF U SEARCH GOOGLE GROUPS, STEVE WHITTET SEEMED TO HAVE
> WRITTEN ON THIS, WAY BACK IN 99.
>
> ANYCASE, I AM SPEAKING ABOUT INDUS PEOPLE AND NOT BRAHUI....
>
> HOPE YOU WILL COMMENT ON INDUS PEOPLE...

So far you haven't said anything concrete about the Indus Valley people.
If you have a theory about them, what is it?

Piotr