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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- mkelkar2003 <smykelkar@...> wrote:
> GK: Your section 9.3 is insufficient to back
> > up
> > > your claim. The Indo-Aryans could well have been
> true
> > > nomads, and such populations are exceedingly hard
> > to
> > > track down (before and after settlement). The case
> > of
> > > the Pechenegs in Ukraine is a perfect example
> > (though
> > > the Huns would fit the bill almost as easily). We
> > > know that the Pecheneg Confederacy was dominant on
> > the
> > > steppes of southern Ukraine for a century and a
> > half
> > > [ca. 890's- 1030's] (Constantine Porphyrogenitus
> > has
> > > much to say about it in his De administrando
> > imperio).
> > > But they remain archaeologically elusive. We know
> > that
> > > most of those who stayed on the steppes after
> > their
> > > big defeat of 1036 were eventually invited by
> > Prince
> > > Vasyl'ko Rostyslavych to settle in Galicia. Upon
> > > settlement, they adopted the local culture so
> > quickly
> > > and extensively that one cannot differentiate them
> > > from the rest of the population in terms of
> > > archaeological remains. All that we have are some
> > > place names ("Pechenihy" "Pechenizhyn")and
> > possibly
> > > some family names ending in -yuk. And in their
> > case we
> > > have to deal with a fairly large population. So
> > your
> > > conclusion as to the archaeological argument is
> > > disputable at best. The Indo-Aryans may well have
> > been
> > > integrated on the Pecheneg model, with one
> > admittedly
> > > major difference, viz., their language became
> > dominant
> > > over that of the locals amongst which they
> > > settled.
> >
> > Irrelvant.
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> ****GK: Love it (:=)) Ideological thinking.
> Q.E.D.*****

I am not the one asking people to believe in the **IDEA** that a
small coterie of people speaking a language called PIE (or its
dialects) spread it around from Northern Ireland to Sri Lanka and
yet erase all identity of themselves. So who is the IDEAlogue here?

M. Kelkar

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