[tied] Re: Genetic Studies and Aryan Migrations

From: tgpedersen
Message: 46758
Date: 2006-12-24

> > > > > > > ""It is usually supposed that, at one time, there was a
> > > > > > > single Indo-European language, the so-called
> > > > > > > Indo-European protolanguage, from which all historically
> > > > > > > attested Indo-European languages are presumed to
> > > > > > > descend.
> > > > > > > This supposition is contradicted by the fact
> > > > > > > that, no matter how far we peer back into history, we
> > > > > > > always find a multitude of Indo-European-speaking
> > > > > > > peoples.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is what is documented:
> > > > > > At 1500 BC we find several Anatolian languages and an
> > > > > > early version of Greek. At 1000 BC(?) we might suppose
> > > > > > the Sanskrit we know was codified. Centuries after that
> > > > > > we find the other members of the Indo-European language
> > > > > > family. These are facts.
> > > > >
> > > > > No they are *NOT* facts. They are hypotheses.
> > > >
> > > > We find inscriptions of Hittite from that time.
> > > > And Sanskrit began to be written down in the early centuries
> > > > of the first millenium. Fact.
> > >
> > > The date when a langauge was first written down has nothing
> > > do with how old that langauge is.
> >
> > Obviously. Why should this be relevant here?
>
> It is relevant because Sanskrit can be and is older than the Hittite
> inscriptions of 1500 BCE.

Yes and Hittite is also older than that too as you stated with pomp
three postings ago and seem to have forgotten in your quest to make
AIT go away in whichever way possible. No one has doubted that
languages exist also before they are written down, the question is
whether the IE languages had a common ancestor, PIE. Or is it? I can't
figure out what the great insight is you want to convince us of, so
far we have heard from you that PIE never existed and that it was not
spoken in Europe and that all linguists are a bunch of Nazis and
therefore by nature habitual liars. Which one is it you want to
convince us of? All of them perhaps, for good measure?


Torsten