Re: Anatolian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

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> M. Kelkar:
> > These views are in line with those of Antoine
> > Meillet. There was never a PIE language and hence
> > no sense looking for a "PIE homeland."
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> Your thinking is muddled. Yes, there never was a
> single PIE language.

Then why bother

1. reconstructing it and
2. Locating the supposed homeland based on the reconstructed language.

No, there _is_ a PIE 'homeland'.

> Still confused?
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> It's the same thing as particle-wave duality in
> physics. If we can't tell whether a particle is
> really a particle or if it's a wave, does that mean
> it doesn't exist in any location at all? (Hint: "Yes"
> is the wrong answer.)

The location of the particle depends on the observer! Hence

"we have seen that one primarily places the IE's (Indo-Europeans) in
the north if one is German….in the east if one is Russian, and in the
middle if, being Italian or Spanish, one has no chance of competing
for the privilege (Demoule 1980, p. 120, as quoted by Lal 2005, p.64)."

Demoule, Jean-Paul (1980), "Les Indo-Europeans: Ont-ils existe?"
L'Histoire 28, 108-20.

Lal, B. B. (2005), The Homeland of the Aryans: Evidence of Rigvedic
Flora and Fauna & Archaeology, New Delhi: Aryan Books International.

M. Kelkar

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