Re: [tied] Re: Proto Vedic Continuity Theory of Bharatiya (Indian)

--- mkelkar2003 <smykelkar@...> wrote:

> "The model presented in Figure 1 may not be
> interepreted to mean that
> the Russian language was introduced into Russia by a
> group of Indians
> who invaded or migrated north! The present authors
> believe that there
> is no way to scientifically test such a claim.

It

> just means that
> these languages share something in common through
> proto-Vedic and the
> larger Eurasiatic family (Kalyanaraman and Kelkar
> 2005, p. 62)."

****GK: Isn't it simpler and more correct to claim
that Russian and "Indian" share something in common
through PIE? You don't need to explain why it is only
the IE component of "proto-Vedic" which somehow
wandered northward, leaving the others behind.****

>
> The model we present in Fig 1 p. 63 is as
> unfalsiable as the current
> consensus tree. As always non-linguistic evidence
> is the ultimate
> adjudicator of the matter. All I can say is that
> genetic evidence
> points to a flow of humans from the Indian
> subcontinent to the north
> not the other way round.

*****GK: So "genetic evidence" as you understand it
contradicts the verifiable "flow of humans" from the
north into the Indian subcontinent in historical
times?...*****




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