>
> <snip>
>
> Six 'major'? Are you not merely being courteous?
>
> Well, I doubt that I am going to take a position on this since ita
eventual
> answer is not a large factor in what I am doing but I would like to
> understand your think.
Hock's (1996) work summarized and quoted by Kazanas (2002)
""Then Hock, unaware of J. Nichols's evidence which requires a locus
of dispersal
at Bactria Sogdiana (unlike his own vague vast area from "East Central
Europe to
Eastern Russia," p. 17), nonetheless indicated that there are no
substantial
linguistic arguments against the proposition that IE branches moved
out of
India. He states that apart from the Gypsy emigration, there are
"three more IA
languages moving out of India: Gandhari Prakrit (in medieval Khotam
and farther
East), and Parya in modern Uzebkistan).. and Dunaki close to present
day Shina)
to the outer northwestern edge of South Asia," (also in Hock 1996,
p.82). He
states also that PIE could be "a priori" have been originally spoken
in India
(p. 11) and rejects the idea not on linguistic but
archaeological(!)grounds p.
13) of the kind usually implied by invasionist (horse and chariot).
This as we
saw (Sect VII) is no real difficulty (Kazanas 2002, p. 28).
http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/english/documents/IIR.pdf"
M. Kelkar
>
> Around 3000 B.C., where in India were the Dravidian and PIE-speaking
peoples
> located?
>
>
> Patrick
>