Re: who are indus people?

The Finns don't link Indus Valley to Finnish, but to
Dravidian. The work is interesting and well written
but I'm not in a position to judge its merits
--although it has been much better received than most
theories. From what I gather, although they are too
conservative to say so, they be may be seeing some
calendrical and/or astrological data in the seals
--e.g. the words for fish and star are similar in
Dravidian and so with a Dravidian reading some of the
glyphs coincide with names of planets, etc. I suppose
they were working on the idea that Indus Valley script
functioned the same way that Mayan was believed to
have functioned until the big breaksthroughs in
translating Mayan glyphs. Their work resembles a bit
that of the first big names in Mayan studies.


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> ==========
> 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.
> ==================
>
> 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.
> =================
> 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.
> ===========
>
> 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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