Re: who are indus people?

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From: Rick McCallister

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 1:45 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] 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.

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Arnaud

Personally, I'd look for ST

for example, Su-Bir mesopotamia auto-ethno-nym in Sumerian

that is to say : Water-Riverside

translate as Shui3-Bin1 in Chinese.

I don't believe in coincidence

Many sumerian words have a clear ST outlook.

I suppose it probably the same with Indus.

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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.

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Arnaud

I have read this

and I rate it as completely unconvincing.

Especially when using phonetically worn-out Finnish words

that do not account for the rest of URalic forms.

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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.
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