From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 41664
Date: 2005-10-31
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 5:17 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Proto Vedic Continuity Theory of Bharatiya (Indian)
Langauges
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <smykelkar@...> wrote:
> >
> > Please refer to the files section for Proto Vedic Continuity
> > Theory.doc, a document organized into the following sections:
> >
> > Part 1: Limitations of Indo-European Linguistics
> > 1. 'Love' of Sanskrit as a camouflage for evangelism
> > 2. Unfalsifiable Teach Yourself PIE
> > 3. Indeterminate laryngeals
> > 4. Aryan race ideology
> > 5. Eurocentrism
> > 6. A fading discipline hangs on to slippery genes
> >
> > Part 2: Bharatiya Language Studies
> > 7. Studies needed to delineate the Indo- in Indo-European
> > 8. Study of Prakrits from Paleolithic times
> > 9. The Proto-Vedic Continiuty Theory of Bharatiya Languages
> >
> > Thank you for reading!
>
> I recommend that those who pay for connections by the minute not
> bother. Further translation to English is needed.
>
<snip>
> No discernible evidence is offered for the notion that Dravidian and
> Munda should fit within the same family as Germanic and Indian. I'm
> not surprised at the lack for Munda - if there were any evidence a
> Nostratic affiliation would have been suggested.
>
> Richard.
***
Patrick:
I also read the essay in its entirety; and while I found it quite
interesting, I was disappointed that it presumed a familiarity with Bharati
literature and technical terms that not many of us will have.
The main premise of the essay, it seemed to me, was that nearly all the
Bharati languages are related; and this premise, as I understood it, kept me
reading. However, like Richard, I was saddened to see that this premise was
never developed, let alone proved.
It was obviously written by persons who have great knowledge and love for
their own culture; and I cannot fault anyone for this in any way.
***