From: sreenathan.ansi
Message: 58543
Date: 2008-05-16
>linguistic lineage.it can be understood in accordance with the
> yes, there are language isolates indicating a pre neolithic
> --- "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.
>