Re: Evoluation and History of Human Populations in South Asia

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> So what ?
>
> Do you think you can find a trace
> in the genes of black African people ?
> accounting for the fact that most of them
> speak either English or French ?
> The invasion of a dominant ultra-thin layer
> can impose its language.
>
> This study proves nothing
> when it comes to Indo-Aryan languages
> being invaders from outside.
> This invasion is a fact,
> not a kind of "working hypothesis".
>
> Denying that is absurd.
>
> Arnaud

"This invasion is a fact,

> not a kind of "working hypothesis"."

A Fact must be based on objectively verifiable evidence. The only
"evidence" you have is the hypothetically reconstructed PIE which is
basically Greek phonology tagged on to Sansrkit vocabulary. Such a
reconstruction is not sufficient to locate where and when this
language may have been spoken. There are about seventy working
hypotheses about that question (Mallory). The area NW India-Pakistan
is definitely one of these working hypotheses.

M. Kelkar

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