Re: who are indus people?

Hi Piotr,

I am reviewing my messages and I found this one. This went unanswered.
I am not sure I have gained more knowledge on Indus people than I had
three years ago, but yet I would try to answer your question " do you
have a theory on Indus people or what?"

Yes, I have a theory on Indus people which is yet to totally take a
shape since I have not went further than this message since I have not
got much of the inputs and criticism I needed on the issue.

It is said Telugu people are said to be of Dravidian origin and so are
the Indus valley people.

While I do not believe in this classification, I believe that both
Indus people and telugu people belong to the same classification, what
ever it is. The reasons are given in my earlier message.

On the other hand, it is also possible that Indus valley civilization
is a Jain Yaksha civilization. But then I am not sure whether we have
inputs to prove this on linguistic basis.

regards,

Kishore patnaik

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-- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>
> 15-03-2004 12:25, kishore mohan wrote:
>
> > wHEN BALUCI- THE TWIN LANGUAGE OF BRAHUI AND KURDISH- CLOSELY
> > CONNECTED TO BALUCI ARE INDO ARYAN, THEN HOW ON EARTH DID BRAHUI
> > BECOME DRAVIDIAN?
>
> Brahui never had to _become_ Dravidian -- it's always been that way. As
> a matter of fact, no language can ever become a member of a given
> family. It always _belongs_ to the same group(s) its ancestors belonged
> to. Kurdish an Baluchi are Iranian languages -- neither of them is
> Dardic (or Indo-Aryan, for that matter). Since Baluchi and Brahui have
> for centuries been spoken in the same region, there has been a lot of
> interaction between them and Brahui has been strongly influenced by
> Baluchi as a result. That doesn't make it an Indo-Iranian language.
>
> > iT IS ESSENTIALLY DARDIC. SOME WORDS OF TAMIL WILL NOT MAKE IT
> > DRAVIDIAN.. THE SAME MAY BE SAID ABOUT ANDHRIAN LANGUAGE TOO...
>
> How do you figure out it's "essentially" Dardic? It isn't "Tamil words"
> that make it Dravidian. Cf.
>
>

http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/detailedlanguagerecord?ethnocode=BRH

>
> > IN FACT, IF U SEARCH GOOGLE GROUPS, STEVE WHITTET SEEMED TO HAVE
> > WRITTEN ON THIS, WAY BACK IN 99.
> >
> > ANYCASE, I AM SPEAKING ABOUT INDUS PEOPLE AND NOT BRAHUI....
> >
> > HOPE YOU WILL COMMENT ON INDUS PEOPLE...
>
> So far you haven't said anything concrete about the Indus Valley

people.

> If you have a theory about them, what is it?
>
> Piotr
>