Re: More by Bryant

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Thank you, Kishore.

That's interesting
but I think one does not need to be either leftist, muslim, racist or
(post-)colonialist to think that Indic languages are intrusive in India.

Arnaud

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A  more seriously radical  study has to be indeed  made into the Indology, in the area of Linguistics. I know that it is easier to dismiss this kind of demands but believe me, what I read about Linguistics is mostly unconvincing.

When Linguistics is  intruding into another  area of social sciences, say , such as in the form of  historical linguistics, such social scientist  has got to be more circumventing than a pure linguist.

the question  here does not just concern the introduction or intrusion of Indo-Iranian languages but can the linguistics explain the claimed
  introduction of a complete set of spiritual and material culture from poetry to chariot building, not merely  the material remnants discovered by archeology? 

For eg, the  word duhita (daughter in english) clearly means one who milks the cow. This explains the pastoral background of the Aryans, but  the cognates in the other languages content them selves to specify the physical relationship and discuss nothing about the social background of the word.

Similarly, Telugu, a south Indian language, has clear  country words for primitive feelings such as say fear. It does not have ready made words, at least not those which are popular , to express more learned feelings such as love, gratitude etc. All these words are downloaded from Sanskrit.  The Tamil words such as Anbudam (lover) or Kadal (love) have no cognates in Telugu.

It may be also interesting to note that  the language has words for rivulet , hill, salt, iron  and cart but no such words for river, mountain or Chariot. Again, the words for all the later are borrowed from Sanskrit.  A study of the language clearly indicates the primitive culture of Andhras which is not very readily attested by Archeology. Even liturgical sources can only point so much , if a strained reading of these sources is made.[ say, by equating Vanaras with Telugu people]  Linguistic tools and logic  could be an important pointer towards the antiquity of Telugu.

I hope I am beginning to make sense,

regards,

Kishore patnaik

 

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