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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <smykelkar@...>
> wrote:
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> > > Have you heard of the Austro-Asiatic Invasion Theory?
> > >
> > > Richard.
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> > Yes I have heard it. The French Indologist Bernard Sergent.
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> Are you joking? Does Sergent really spea of an Austroasiatic
> ***invasion*** of the Indian subcontinent?
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http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com/reviews/sergent.html>
Again, I quote from links posted already in earlier posts.
" Sergent claims that the oldest Homo Sapiens Sapiens racial type of
India, now largely submerged by interbreeding with immigrant
Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic and IE populations, is the one preserved in
the Vedda and Rodiya tribes of Sri Lanka. While the purely black skin
is associated (by Sergent) with the population which "brought" the
Dravidian languages, the Veddoid traits are found to an extent among
tribal populations in south India and as far north as the Bhils and
the Gonds."
"Sergent thinks they(Dravidians) arrived in Mehrgarh well before the
beginning of the Neolithic, in ca. 8,000 BC, and that they were
subsequently replaced or absorbed by the real Harappans, who belonged
to the "Indo-Afghan" type. (p.50)"
"Sergent has tried to identify a crucial stage in this itinerary: the
3rd-millennium Bactrian culture as the base from which the Indo-Aryans
invaded India."
(Kelkar's comment: Sergent is wrong about the BMAC according to the
Lamberg Karlovsky , Mallory (2002) paper I have already quoted from
earlier).
"Bernard Sergent traces practically all Indian language families to
foreign origins. He confirms the East-Asian origins of both the
Tibeto-Burmese languages (Lepcha, Naga, Mizo etc.) and the
Austro-Asiatic languages (Santal, Munda, Khasi etc.). Though many
tribals in central and southern India are the biological progeny of
India's oldest human inhabitants, their adopted languages are all of
foreign origin. To Sergent, this is true of not only Austro-Asiatic
and Indo-Aryan, but also of Dravidian."
So the cradle of all non African humanity (Oppenheimer 2003) either
resembled the moon or was occupied by mutes not very long ago
according to the French Indologist Bernerd Sergent.
M. Kelkar
> Francesco
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