From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 58499
Date: 2008-05-14
----- Original Message -----
From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:20 PM
Subject: Caucasian Languages in India (was Re: [tied] Who can explain the
comparisons?)
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
>
> The Austro-Asiatic languages moved through coastal India first on
> their way east.
>
> Next came the Elamo-Dravidians from the Northwest.
>
> Finally, Caucasians invaded Northern India.
Well here's something new! Do you have any evidence for such an
invasion? The sole evidence of any influence on Indo-Aryan from
Caucasian, as far as I know, is the suggested Caucasian origin of
Indra, but which I thought was supposed to have happened outside
of India, well before the Indo-Aryans arrived there.
You also forgot to mention the arrival of those very Indo-Aryans
in India, or was that an intentional omission?
David
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Patrick:
These questions are not really my major field of interest so I will not
attempt to argue them.
I believe Caucasian speakers came into contact with Afrasian in Anatolia and
probably Southern Mesopotamia as well: the result was the new formation of
PIE.
Possibly the Hattic population was ethnically Caucasian.
Some of these Caucasians with a new language spread back to Persia and
beyond.
Finally, a portion of this ethnically Caucasian population invaded
Dravidian-speaking northern India.
Mr. Kelkar will not like it, of course, but I believe IIr is intrusive in
India though the Dravidian-speakers modified it considerably over time.
If you wish to critique this scenario, feel free.
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