Re: Meaning of Aryan: now, "white people"?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

> Re Dravidian: on Wikipedia, I've read that its
> speakers travel from north to south --there is some
> substrate in S. Dravidian.

This is not certain at all. Some scholars have pointed to a Vedda
substrate in Sri Lanka, but that is at minimum very elusive to
detect!

> And in the Sindhi article on Wikipedia, that Sindhi has Dravidian
> substrate.

Not only Sindhi, but also Gujarati and Marathi, show the traces of
Dravidian grammatical features -- see F.C. Southworth's papers (very
interesting!) at

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~fsouth/Proto-DravidianAgriculture.pdf
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~fsouth/DravidianElement.pdf

> I read in Witzel that Dravidian only shows up in the later books.
> So, would it be logical to surmise that the Indo-Aryans ran into
> Dravidian somewhere around the lower to midddle Indus?

Yes, it would.

Best,
Francescop