From: Mate Kapović
Message: 53690
Date: 2008-02-19
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>Be kind and cite some examples so that we can all see this "obvious"
> wrote:
>
>> I've read for the nth timesince 2005 the conclusions of LK's paper
>> linked to above, and this is, in short, what I think of his
>> arguments:
>>
>> 1) The BMAC and the cultures of the Andronovo archaeol. horizon may
>> have shared common ancestors: NO.
>>
>> 2) The BMAC people(s) may have been Indo-Iranian speakers: NO -- the
>> languages of the BMAC, at least some of them, may have belonged to
>> the Macro-Caucasian super-phylum as the present-day Burushos of
>> Northern Pakistan.
>
> I've just begun looking at Burushaski and it is obviously an
> Indo-European language
> closely related to other Indo-Iranian languages and Armenian (like Khowar,
> Nuristani
> languages, etc.) in every vocabulary group. Why hasn't this been seen
> before and
> acknowledged?