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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@> wrote:
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> > What is the scholarly consensus about the classification of Nuristani
> > languages?
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> To the best of my knowledge it's classified as an Iranian language.
Thanks!
http://users.sedona.net/~strand/lngIndex0.html
http://users.sedona.net/~strand/Phonology/IIFproc.html
"These processes support the wider comparative evidence for a
Eurasiatic linguistic family (Greenberg 2000), in which Backing and
Fronting appear ubiquitously to represent maleness and femaleness,
respectively. The evidence suggests that at an early stage speakers
associated the low pitch of male voices with the low pitch of
laryngeal Back-Tensing, while the high pitch of women's and children's
voices is congruent with the high pitch of Front-Tensing. The use of
the BackĀFront axis extended to represent size and distance as well as
gender, as can be seen in the uses of the grammatical formatives a and
i throughout the region."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuristani_languages#List_of_Nuristani_languages
"According to linguist Richard Strand, an authority in this area,
there are five Nuristani languages, each spoken in several dialects.
Major dialects include Kata-vari, Kamviri, and Vai-ala. Most of the
Nuristanis in Pakistan speak Kamviri. These are influenced by, and
sometimes classified as, Dardic languages; but this is more of a
geographical classification than a linguistic one."
"The recent view is to classify Nuristani as an independent branch of
the Indo-Iranian superstock, but a few would class it with the Indic
group, while another would characterize it as originally Iranian, but
greatly influenced by the nearby Dardic languages."
http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/Research/Projects/romani/files/11_protoromani.shtml
"There are several structural features that Romani shares specifically
with the languages of the Northwest, the so-called 'Dardic' languages
of India (such as Kashmiri)."
Linking Romani-Dardic-Nuristani and classifying them as a part of the
Indo-Ir and not a seprate third branch would support the South Asia
homeland theory.
M. kelkar
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