Re: beyond langauges

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 1:31:59 PM on Saturday, April 26, 2008, mkelkar2003
> wrote:
>
> >> Witzel does. Mittani Indo Aryan aika>Sanskrit eka hence
> >> Vedas are younger than 1500 BCE.
>
> >> QED
>
> > Also Indo-Eurasian research msg # 9913
>
> > "G. Thompson writes:
>
> >> the numbers are Indo-Aryan, not Iranian. aika > eka
> >> [contrast Avestan aiwa]; satta > sapta [contrast Avestan
> >> hapta]. Bjarte is right to leave this question to
> >> Indologists or Iranists, because we can tell the
> >> difference between Indo-Aryan and Iranian words, as well
> >> as their gods.
>
> Obviously irrelevant: the question was whether anyone
> distinguished the terms 'Indo-Aryan' and 'Indic'.
>
> Brian

aika is Indo-Aryan and eka is Indic.

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/EJVS-7-3.htm

"Again, if there was an (early) emigration out of India by (Vedic)
Indo-Aryans it would be surprising that even the Mitanni documents do
not show typical South Asian influence.[N.153]
Rather, is obvious that the remnants of early IA in Mitanni belong to
a pre-Rgvedic stage of IA, "

So there WAS an EARLY IA before the PROPER IA of the Rig Veda.

M. Kelkar


M. Kelkar