Re: dating of aryans

--- Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:

>
>
> david_russell_watson <liberty@...> wrote:
>
>
> > The contradictory proposals that IE were
> wandering nomads and
> > yet were held to have originated from a specific
> abode, and that
> > they were primitive tribesmen and yet were able
> to formulate and
> > utilize a language as intricate and complex as
> Indo European is
> > a fallacy at best.
>
> Neither Proto-Indo-European nor Sanskrit either one
> is as complex
> as some modern languages spoken by peoples
> generally considered
> fairly technologically primitive.
>
> _______________________
> I'm a latecomer to this thread, but this point you
> make is interesting to me. Could you please
> identify any of these modern languages as intricate
> and complex as Proto-Indo-European or Sanskrit yet
> spoken by peoples generally considered fairly
> technologically primitive?
> Andrew
>

There aren't many technologically primitive people
left. But many Native American languages will give you
a run for your money.
There are some languages in New Guinea and Australia
that make IE and Sanskrit look like child's play with
"trial" number, totally bizarre case morphemes, etc.
that surpass anything out of the Caucasus.
See Facts on File's book coffee table book on
languages. I forgot the name but it gives you a lot of
interesting examples.


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