Re: Mitanni and Matsya

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson"
<liberty@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "kishore patnaik"
> <kishorepatnaik09@> wrote:
>
> > IA adstrate upon Hittite languages [read: Hurrian language -- FB]
> > is long established but why pre-Vedic?
>
> Because the Vedas were composed in a dialect of Indo-Aryan
> that had already lost the 'z' and 'z^' sounds of Proto-Indo-
> Iranian, but which the dialect of Mitanni had retained.

There is a number of other supposedly pre-Vedic phonetic features in
attested Mitanni IA words -- see M. Witzel at

http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs0703/ejvs0703c.txt
(§18. Absence of Indian influence in Mitanni-Indo-Aryan)

Regards,
Francesco