Re: Indo-Aryan Migration in <<Several Waves>>

ranjit_mathews_at_yahoo.com
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: 22 Mar 2005 19:48:32 -0800

a.manansala@attbi.com wrote:
> ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Yes, there has been some work in this direction already although no
> consensus from what I can see.

With respect to studying the Indian theater, little such exploration
has been done. Has anyone tried reconstructing protoBasha, PIIr and
protoDravidian and comparing the former with the latter two and
explaining the similarities and differences? With reference to the
notes here on Basha, they are neat but it needs to be done more
professionally on a larger scale than can be done by a single
individual:
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/9845/sumer.htm

> > Would you object to S Asia as a possible PAA (ProtoAustroAsiatic)
> > urheimat? PAA speakers could have gone to Yunnam and SE Asia from
S.
> > Asia, no?
>
> Yes, of course. And I believe it was the urheimat of Dravidian
> languages.

How did a relationship with "Austric" come about? Substrate?
Superstrate? Adstrate? I believe this is your webpage.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/9845/austric.htm
Some new information to add - tanu is self in Tamil/ Malayalam too. "I
myself" is <nAn tAn> in Tamil and <njAn tannE> in Malayalam. <tannatAnE
tagaRnu> in Malayalam means "it destroyed itself".

How did a relationship with Turkic and Uralic come about? <kuLam>=pond
(Malayalam) vs. "kul"="lake" in Chuvash. <eYun...>=awake vs.
<uyin...>=awake in Turkish. "Let's go to a cinema" has an <elAm>
imperative suffix in Tamil (<sinimAku pOgelAm>) vs. "elim" ("sinemaya
gidelim") in Turkish. gudi=house in Estonian vs. <kuDil>=hut;
<kuDi>=house in Tamil.

> Regards,
> Paul Kekai Manansala
> http://sambali.blogspot.com/

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