Re: Caucasian Languages in India (was Re: [tied] Who can explain the

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 58532
Date: 2008-05-15

--- "sreenathan.ansi" <sreenathan.ansi@...>
wrote:

> ---
> There is a point in Patrick's claim.
> yes, there was intial coastal migration to India.
> who entered to
> this part of continent first, negritoids or
> austrics?
> Are these two phenotypes evolved simultaneously in
> Africa and moved
> to India. If so, Munda languages could be originated
> in India.But
> such clams are not substantiating with genomic
> findings.Here we
> should make a clear demarcation of language and
> genes(people).
> Evidences suggest that of a male inflow of austrics
> from east to
> India. Are these people brought a proto munda
> language to India or
> there was pre neolithic languages in India and were
> replaced by
> later waves of Dravidian? and only munda language
> sustains.
> Still lot of things to be traced.
> sreenathan
>
>
. . .
My understanding is that substrate in S. Dravidian
languages is not Austro-Asiatic and that is distinct
from Vedda substrate in Sinhalese. The Andaman
languages, though possibly ultimately related, fall
into 2 or more groups that have not yet been
reconstructed into a coherent family --AFAIK.
There is also Nahali and Kusunda, neither of which are
Dravidian or Munda.
So, there are at least 5 different language groups (or
trces there of) that predate IA, Dravidian and
Austro-Asiatic.