Re: Technical adstrate in Indo-aryan?

From: Francesco Brighenti
Message: 64784
Date: 2009-08-17

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, James Dow Allen <jamesdowallen@...> wrote:

> As most of you realize I have no expertise in historical
> linguistics but much curiosity! Since early Indo-Europeans had
> no astronomy expertise, but Harappans did, a Harappan adstrate
> should exist in Aryan: math, astronomical and architectural
> terms.


Not if the Indo-Aryans migrated to the Greater Panjab region *after* the collapse of the Indus civilization, as is the general belief of the scholarly community.

Regards,
Francesco