--- 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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