Re: Burushaski -- bibliography

Yes, that's what I was talking about --the supposed
BMAC words for brick, camel, etc. that Witzel referrs
to.
I'd like to read the article you refer to.


--- Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>

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