Re: beyond langauges

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

>
> So, NW-IA it is. But I noticed the following in endnote 1
>
> 1. The Nuristani languages (Morgenstierne's " Kafir"
> languages) include Kati, Wasi-weri, Ashkun, Kalasha-ala,
> and Tregami. These languages retain phonological features
> which cannot be derived from Indo-Aryan, but rather, only
> from Indo- European. See Masica 1991: 461-3 for a succinct
> discussion of the basis of this distinction.

Which takes us back to where I started us, with Indo-
Iranian divided first into Indic, Iranic, and Kafiric,
and Dardic a branch of the Indic.

:^)

David