Re: who are indus people?

Re: Indus Valley language, see Michael Witzer's work.
He has various monographs on the web.
He thinks they spoke a language related to
Austro-Asiatic, perhaps somewhat distantly cognate to
Munda et al.
He gives quite a few roots and tries to debunk
Dravidian as a candidate by showing a progressive lack
of Dravidian words in Vedic the father back you go.
On the other hand, the Finns, Parponnen (sp?) try to
link Dravidian and Indus Valley.
According to the Wikipedia article on Sindhi, it has a
strong Dravidian substrate --which suggests that at
least the southern Indus Valley may have spoken
Dravidian languages.
It may be well be that like Mesopotamia, the Indus
Valley was multilingual.


--- Richard Wordingham <richard@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Do you have a list of supposedly substrate words ?
> > or internet reference ?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Kishore patnaik
>
> > >That the Indus people(s) were Dravidian
> speakers is, on the
> > >contrary, just one theory among many which is,
> moreover, not
> > >upported by the most recent studies on the
> substrate (= non-IE)
> > >words found in the earliest layers of the
> Rgveda. <Snip>
>
> Take a look at 'Substrate Languages in Old
> Indo-Aryan (Rgvedic, Middle
> and Late Vedic)'
>

http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs0501/ejvs0501article.pdf

> .
>
> Richard.
>
>

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