Re: beyond langauges

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From: "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:07 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: beyond langauges




--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "kishore patnaik"
<kishorepatnaik09@...> wrote:


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Those who lump together Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Munda languages
under the label "Indic languages" are usually Hindu nationalists
and/or crackpot scholars who aim at disintegrating the recognized
language families of South Asia in the name of a
misunderstood "Linguistic Area" concept -- see Shubash Kak at

http://www.ece.lsu.edu/kak/indic.pdf :

"We argue that based on genetic classification, both the Indo-Aryan
and Dravidian languages have had common parents and these languages
share many typological categories."

(Kalyanaraman also adds Munda languages to the mix.)

Regards,
Francesco

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Patrick:

I fail to see anything objectionable in Kak's assertion.

Bomhard has convincingly demonstrated that, if Dravidian is not necessarily
Nostratic, it certainly can be related to Nostratic.

Munda is a different matter, of course.


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