I'm interested
in getting this too.
Grazie !
Arnaud
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Dear Rick,
--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:
> Has anyone made a list of the BMAC vocabulary and
> systematically compared it to Burushaski and/or
> Caucasian?
Since the BMAC languages are unknown, the only material that is
suited for this kind of linguistic comparison is provided by the
*supposed* BMAC loans in Old Indo-Aryan and Old Iranian (in some
cases supplemented by some nicely fitting linguistic evidence from
Tocharian indicating a sort of "triangulation" of the process of
borrowing having the BMAC languages at the source end). This work
has been started by Witzel in the paper I mentioned in my previous,
bibliographic post:
Witzel, M. Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange in Prehistoric
Western Central Asia. Sino-Platonic Papers, 129, Dec. 2003, 1-70.
Witzel mainly elaborates on the supposed BMAC loanwords isolated by
A. Lubotsky in his paper "The Indo-Iranian Substratum," which is
available online at
http://www.ieed.nl/lubotsky/pdf/Indo-Iranian%20substratum.pdf
If you want, I can send you Witzel's _Sino-Platonic_ paper (not
available online) as a pdf attachment.
Best,
Francesco