From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57648
Date: 2008-04-19
----- Original Message -----
From: "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...>
>"What does this all prove7 Zoller's contention is correct. The
>language seems to have retained some very archaic structures,
>retaining PIE k-, -l~-, g- and -g-. Many. words in Bangani unlike
>other IA languages of the region have not witnessed palatalization
>defying RUKi Rule. It is difficult to prove at this point whether
>this is because of its affiliation to _Kenturn_ language as claimed by
>Zoller.
========
Kenturn to be right.
Zoll ist Zoll.
Arnaud
========
>But if even the Vedic poets could not recall the invasion of their
>grandfathers into India (Vedic literature doesn't mention it
>anywhere, vide Elst 1999:164-171), what value should we attach to a
>tradition of this mountain tribe about its own immigration many
>centuries ago? Could it not rather be that they have interiorized
>what the school-going ones among them picked up in standard textbooks
>of history, viz. the AIT model? Their presence in Afghanistan or in
>Garhwal itself is at any rate highly compatible with the OIT. "
>M. Kelkar
=======
Mayoreche,
Have you investigated the possibility Bangali could be pre-Grimm
para-Germanic ?
What are the words for horse in Bangali ?
Arnaud
==========