From: mkelkar2003
Message: 58144
Date: 2008-04-28
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
[Unnecessary quotation removed - RW.]
> No, you don't pay attention. Mitanni IA is not
> directly ancestral to Sanskrit. It is coeval with the
> predecessor of Sanskrit
I said Mittani IA is supposedly earlier (not ancestral) to Sanskrit
according to Witzel (1998):
" Michael Witzel wrote: > > We do not now, it is likely
Pre_Indo_Aryan, precisely because of > > aika(-vartana) = Pre-Vedic
aika > Ved. eka. "
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9805&L=indology&D=1&F=P&P=54984
M. Kelkar