Re: dating of aryans

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:

>
> 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?

I mainly had in mind some of the languages of New Guinea,
a Papuan language named Imas being the only one for which
I can recall any detail now. It has a very complex verbal
system, and many more noun classes than the three genders
we're used to.

I don't know where I first read about Imas, though, and I
couldn't find any mention of it searching on Google today
either.

???

David