From: tgpedersen
Message: 57621
Date: 2008-04-18
>I have.
>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@>
> wrote:
>
> > On 2008-04-18 07:26, stlatos wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
> Besides Wikipedia, has anyone here ever read the notes by
> professional IA linguists collected in this links page:
>
> http://etext.virginia.edu/test/peter_hook_test/~pehook/bangani.html