Re: A possible Homeland of the Indo-European Languages

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

>
> That's because they are hypotheses. What IE scholars
> have done is eliminate the improbable and investigate
> what's left. Ever hear of Occam's Razor? Scientists
> use it all the time. Science is not a matter of blind
> faith.
>

I was just wating for you to bring up the Occam's razor. As jouppe
says below

"
Petri Kallio has now on the contrary made a good
case for bringing Proto-Uralic slightly closer to present by one
millenium or so,
http://www.kotikielenseura.fi/virittaja/hakemistot/jutut/kallio1_2006.
html based mainly on Indo-Aryan loanword evidence."

"Mainly on the "Indo-Aryan loanwoard evidence(!!!)"

So if THAT evidence can be explained through just ONE theory of south
to north movement from Anatolian or South Asia homeland then Occam's
razor would speedily apply. Once again Elst (2000) has nailed it:

"This much at least is well-known, that both Uralic and Dravidian have
an agglutinative structure. In a first acquaintance with Hungarian
and Tamil, it is striking how both have long words with the stress on
the first syllable and very few of the consonant clusters so typical
of IE. The case against this Siberian Urheimat for Uralic rests
precisely on a European Urheimat theory of IE, as Rédei�s objection to
Hajdu�s position illustrates. So, if we drop the European Urheimat
assumption for IE, we need not maintain it for Uralic either."

What is that expression about shooting in the foot again?

M. Kelkar

> --- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
>
> > http://www.hjholm.de/
> >
> > 1.3. Since most scholars incline towards a homeland
> > in the steppes
> > north of the Black Sea ('Pontus', cf. e.g. Anthony
> > 2001:13f), here is
> > a somewhat outdated attempt of a >slide show of this
> > first option. An
> > updated version is only available as this single map
> > graph >update
> > map. Note that neither this Urheimat/homeland
> > hypothesis, nor the
> > dozens of other ones, nor the migration routes are
> > in fact
> > convincingly proven.
> >
> > M. Kelkar
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

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