Re: Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 52773
Date: 2008-02-12

--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

> The Out of India question is important to Indians;
> do it, I say , as long as
> they use science to advocate it, be my guest.
>
> I think Mr. Kelkar notably is attempting to do just
> that.

****GK: Could you point out Mr. Kelkar's scientific
demonstrations of OIT? I must have missed it.****

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Maintaining that Indo-Iranian is autochtonous
in India because there is no "physical evidence" of invasion
is methodologically flawed.
The absence of positive data is not *a proof* that an idea
is not wrong.
The problem is the actual existence of positive data
that clearly indicate this idea is terminally wrong.

Including loanwords of Indo-Iranian into Uralic.
A remarkable case is : Mordvin vrgas "wolf"
It can only be proto-sanscrit.
It is pronouced with a syllabic [r].
and this language has syllabic [l] [r] contrast.
Vrgas not **vlkas.
Proto-Sanscrit in Mordovia.

Arnaud
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