Re: Burushaski

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Max Dashu <maxdashu@...> wrote:

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> Ilija Casule of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, says that a

language spoken by about 90,000 people in a remote area of Pakistan is
Indo-European in origin.

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>

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/20/155454736/pakistans-burushaski-language-fi\
nds-new-relatives

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> "the vocabulary that corresponds with Indo-European is core

vocabulary, names of body parts, basic verbs, basic adjectives and also
grammatical endings... And it corresponds systematically. That's the
most important part. Every word you find has to have a systematic
correspondence with all the rest of Indo-European."

>
> Thoughts?
>

Despite the press article, Cassule's theory isn't new and it's flawed:
Burushaski can't be an IE language because it haven't got a bit of IE
morphology.