---well there goes that idea! you can see why such a link would
provide a whole group of pre history theories. i heard the elamo
dravidian theory from a u ot t archeology prof as recently as last
year.i read the nilo saharan end of the hypothesis in a journal a few
years ago from a professor who styled himself as from the u of
pennsylvannia.
so how does elamite fit in with language groups? is it grouped with
summerian? if not is summarian an isolate?
several years ago i read secondary references to the early gaelic
inscriptions in a script called ogham(prounounced several ways
depending where you are) . this book claimed that there were roughly
sixty early oghams that were not of an indoeuropean language, but
said there were too few inscriptions to really tell. unfortunatly the
author gave no examples or reasoning to support this. now it is odd
that the first writing in the british isles would be alphabetic
without a precussor of some kind of pictographic script so it might
suggest that the script was introduced,but i know of no other ogham
script from which it may have been introduced. these early oghams are
sometimes given dates going back to skara brae and new grange,c. 3500
bce. or possibly earlier. although the authors rarely give supporting
evidence and reasoning--seems a comon problem in celtic early
history.so does any one know of any decent research that hints at
least at what language these oghams were written in?
oh yeah and finally i've had several people suggest that scythian is
turkic, whereas most english writers say indeuropean. is there any
written scythian that has surrived or other eveidece on this. i've
read that many scythians were employed a mercernary calvary in
assyrian army, did they leave any relatively early writing.
the scythians are often used as the indoeuropean starting point for a
backward analysis to say the andronovo and attifasiev cultures were
indeuropean, but i have found the evidence rather too scanty .
sorry if these issues are too late on the discusions on this list,
but inquiring minda want to know?
In nostratic@..., JosEAndrés Alonso <ocitartson@...> wrote:
> Well. Among dravidologists the term "Elamo-Dravidian"
> does not exist. This hypothesis was created by David
> McAlpin, a fellow in London University during 70s. His