From: Francesco Brighenti
Message: 57619
Date: 2008-04-18
> On 2008-04-18 07:26, stlatos wrote:Besides Wikipedia, has anyone here ever read the notes by
>
> > Is there any evidence that this is a substratum within another
> > language instead of native words in a non-Indic, non-Ir language
> > that was fairly heavily influenced by Indic recently?
>
> Bangani is a perfectly ordinary Mod.IA language.
>
> > Though the "centum" words have drawn the most attention, they are
> > certainly not the only words showing unusual (non-Indic)
> > features, and the oddities are so varied and scattered
> > throughout both basic and other vocabulary it seems impossible
> > they are borrowings.
>
> Have a heart. You should learn something about Indic _before_ you
> start such wild speculation.