Re: Burushaski -- bibliography

Okay, but it's a bit premature, not to say
pretentious, to refer to "Harappan"

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I wrote "pre-indic"
afterwards

Arnaud

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--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> Has anyone made a list of the BMAC vocabulary and
> systematically compared it to Burushaski and/or
> Caucasian?
>
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>
> I have been assembling a
> comparative vocabulary of
> Elamite and Dravidian.
>
> Which suggests that
> Elamite and Harrapan may have
> undergone a typical change :
> Pharyngal H1 > sh
> But dravidian does not display
> this palatalisation.
>
> Data :
>
> 1. *doH "man"
>
> Huri doH "servant"
> Cf. Greek doulos < doHelos
> Elamite ta-sshu "man"
> Pre-Indic "dâsa-" < *dosa
>
> This word is a clear proof
> the natives of India are not IE.
>
> 2. *?aH "buffle"
>
> Egyptian ?_H
> Coptic yôH
> Elamite ash "cattle herd"
>
> 3. *&_H- "to breathe, nose"
>
> Elamite shi-um-me "his nose"
> IE H2nH1-m "wind"
> Dravidian *a:v "breathe"
>
> 4. *H_y "to come, to go"
>
> i.e H1ey
> Elamite shi-in-nu "coming"
> Dravidian *va: "to come"
>
> To be continued
>
> Arnaud
>
>
>
>
>

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