Re: a discussion on OIT

--- koenraad_elst <koenraad.elst@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Can someone tell me where the traces of the
> Elstian
> > 3500 BCE writing are in India, or anywhere else in
> the
> > world for that matter?
>
>
> "Elstian
> 3500 BCE writing in India"? I never mentioned such
> a thing.
> This is an interesting example of how a silly
> misreading can take on
> a life of its own. One of the earlier posters in
> this thread, in his
> reply to me, mentioned the appearance of writing in
> India in "c. 3-
> 500 BC", i.e. Brahmi writing in "three to five
> hundred BC". That's
> not the same thing as "three thousand five hundred
> BC". If not
> stopped in time, such canards can quickly become the
> received
> wisdom. After all, nobody who has read Rick's
> scornful comment based
> on a misreading is under any obligation to read the
> present post
> correcting it. Let's see how this canard fares.
>
> Cheers,
>
> KE
>

I understood your earlier thread as stating that there
was writing in India in 3500 BCE. If I misunderstood I
apologize. If you did make such a claim, you need to
back it up.
AFAIK, Brahmi and Karosthi are the first known writing
systems for I-A languages and they occured sometime
between approx. 3-500 BCE.