--- Rick McCallister <
gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> What is known about substrate in Persian and other
> Iranian languages of Iran?
> I looked and couldn't find anything of the web.
> The only pre-IE language language I know of is
> Elamite. I suppose Sumerian, Semitic and
> Hurrian-Mitanni possibly could have overlapped the
> border to the west and I have no clue how far west
> Dravidian once existed.
> While we're at it, we could lump in Balochi and
> Pashto/Pushtu to this elusive search.
****GK: I could have added that in his article Burrow
claims Indics occupied the whole of Iran, not just
East, but also Center and West (some groups even
reaching the Hurrian area and becoming the well-known
"Aryans" of Mitanni with their capital at Washshukanni
(he etymologizes this as "wealth of mines" in Indic,
[mines= precious metals].) After taking over Eastern
Iran, and centuries after the Zoroastrian revolution
there (which he dates as ca.1200/1100 BCE), Iranians
supposedly conquered the rest of it. Burrow thought
the Mardi of Mazandaran were Indic remnants of this
late Mede and Persian push.****
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