From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53841
Date: 2008-02-21
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos"
> <stlatos@> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> For (Old) Burushaski substrate words in Old
> Indo-Aryan:
>
> Tikkanen, B. On Burushaski and other ancient
> substrata in northwest
> South Asia. Studia Orientalia (Helsinki), 64, 1988,
> 303-325.
>
> Witzel, M. Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange
> in Prehistoric
> Western Central Asia. Sino-Platonic Papers, 129,
> Dec. 2003, 1-70.
>
> For a comparison of Burushaski and Caucasian grammar
> and religion,
> and for a possible gradual movement of speakers of
> Proto-Burushaski
> eastwards towards the Hindukush/Pamir area via the
> southern Caspian
> coast and southern Central Asia:
>
> Tuite, K. Evidence for Prehistoric Links between the
> Caucasus and
> Central Asia: The Case of the Burushos. In: The
> Bronze Age And Early
> Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia, ed. by V.
> Mair. 2 vols.
> = JIES Monograph 26, Washington/Philadephia: The
> Institute for the
> Study of Man / The University of Pennsylvania Museum
> Publications
> 1998: 448-475.
>
> For a comparison of Pyreneean, Caucasus, Pamir
> ethnology, with a
> binary system (male/female : pure/impure) of
> activities and
> correlated wild and domestic animals:
>
> Parkes, P. Livestock symbolism and pastoral ideology
> among the
> Kafirs of the Hindu Kush. Man (N.S.) 22, 1987,
> 637-660.
>
> Regards,
> Francesco
>
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