From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53125
Date: 2008-02-14
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco____________________________________________________________________________________
> Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
> wrote:
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> > 1. the early habitat of Proto-Indo-Iranians was in
> an area close to
> > the Central Asian steppe-taiga interface, e.g.,
> near the Urals;
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> > 2. these Proto-Indo-Iranians called themselves
> *arya-.
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> > Hope this helps,
> > Francesco
>
> "Indo-Iranian" is a linguistic idea. It does not
> refer to any actual
> people who can be traced back into history. See
> Lamberg-Karlovsky
> 2005.pdf and Proto-Indo-European Reality and
> reconstruction.pdf
> Cladistic analysis by Dyen Kruskal Black 1992.pdf in
> the files section
> did not find any support for the "Indo-Iranian"
> family. The Indian
> and Iraniann langauges are interspersed by Green
> and Armenian. It is
>
> M. Kelkar
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