Re: Genetic Studies and Aryan Migrations

> On the basis of that you claim that there has never
> > been a movement of people into said area from the outside (AIT)
> > nor in the reverse direction (OIT).
>
> The claim of no large population movement is based on genetic
> evidence not linguistic.
>
> That is a strong claim, and
> > it is incumbent on you, who made it, to argue for it.
>
>
> What I am saying is that anyone engaging in the AIT/OIT debate
> unwittingly and needlessly legitimizes the untestable and unproven
> assumptions made by Indo-Eureopean linguists.

The similarity between of Indo-Aryan languages like Sanskrit and
Iranian languages like Avestan and the dissimilarity between
Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian languages are not assumptions
but facts observable by anyone who can read a textbook grammar
of these languages. And you can't legitimize facts, unwittingly,
needlessly or otherwise, you try to explain them. Otherwise we're
back at the inquisition.


Torsten