Re: Origin of Sanskrit (was: Mapping the Origins and Expansion of...

I notice everyone takes as granted that the Indo-Aryans *expanded*,
wherever from; the logical possibility that they co-evolved in situ,
starting as PIE dialects (in the whole region between the Steppes and
India) is scarcely - and never operatively - taken into account
(although this could reconcile any kind of positive evidence)

2012/10/9, Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...>:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
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>> --- On Tue, 10/9/12, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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>> > Because the ancestors of the Mitanni, the putative pre-Iranian
>> > Indians and putative Crimean "Bosphorus Aryans" were never in
>> > India. They moved in from Central Asia. Indo-Aryan is part of
>> > Indo-Iranian, which was originally located in the Eurasia
>> > steppe. Read Witzel and overcome your lack of knowledge
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>> ****GK: He doesn't want to overcome his lack of knowledge. He want
>> to overcome your lack of "knowledge" (:=))*****
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> He just wants to challenge/irritate you cybalist folks. I have discussed the
> same topics with him _ad nauseam_ on this an other lists. Whatever one
> writes, he never cares. Beware you guys!
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> Francesco
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> P.S. If you want to enjoy a nice reading about this and other topics,
> download (in pdf format) the full book by archaologist E.E. Kuz'mina you
> find here:
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> http://www01.us.archive.org/details/TheOriginOfTheIndo-iranians
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> Don't advertise it too much, or else Brill will remove it from the Internet
> (they have already done so on other Websites that housed the same book).
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