Re: beyond langauges

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:

> That is not comparable. There is also a geography factor here.
> Mittani Indo-Aryan and regular IA are found thousands of miles apart.

A bare 2000 miles apart.

> After spliting from IIr one branch went to the near east with their
> aika language and the other went to India with their eka language.
> They both cannot be called Indo-Aryan.

I always understood that the Vedic word <eka> was actually [aika]. Is
there evidence that Panini actually said [e] rather than [ai]?

Richard.