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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> >
> > "Indo-European," "Indo-Iranian" and so forth are not facts.
> >
>
> Here's a fact for you:
> The Indo-Aryan languages are more similar to the Iranian languages
> than they are to the Dravidian languages.
>
>
> Torsten
"The historian of religions Ulf Drobin clarifies Trubetskoy's point:
"all classification must stem from criteria. The followers of the
language tree theory avoid definite criteria and replace them with a
concept of language that is BOTH changeable (in time) and constant
(Indo-European). In the final analysis they end up in paradoxes and
mysticism. (Arvidsson 2006, p.297, emphasis and parentheses in the
original)."
M. Kelkar