Re: Indian Retroflexes

At 12:02:13 PM on Friday, October 26, 2012, shivkhokra wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti"
> <frabrig@...> wrote:

[...]

>> See again Witzel:

>> http://azargoshnasp.net/history/Aryan/EJVS-7-3.pdf (pp. 58-59)

>> [..] In sum, retroflexion affects all those moving into
>> the E. Iranian borderland, the Indus plain and the
>> subcontinent. but this does not work vice versa: those
>> who move out of India, sooner or later, loose it.

> I am afraid this is just plain uninformed. British did not
> learn retroflexes even after staying in India for hundreds
> of years.

Oh, put a sock in it. The British never moved into India in
the relevant sense, as I pointed out before.