From: george knysh
Message: 53657
Date: 2008-02-18
>NB. Minus the Elamite (and some other)areas in the
> --- Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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
> 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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