Re: Relationship between Dravidian and Sumerian languages ?

From: Saggiga (sag_giganospam_at_yahoo.de)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: 5 Jul 2004 05:49:48 -0700

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<40E695E3.46A2@worldnet.att.net>...
> Saggiga wrote:
> >
> > "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<40D8C028.716@worldnet.att.net>...
> > > Saggiga wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Toivo Pedaste <toivo@ucs.uwa.edu.au> wrote in message news:<cb8fvf$l8f$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>...
> > > > > Saggiga wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I have read that the latest findings show that sumerian language arre
> > > > > > related to the dravidian languages.
> > > > > > Is there an available study showing the affinities of these languages
> > > > > > ?
> > > > >
> > > > > I haven't seen that but a Elamo-Dravidian language family has
> > > > > been proposed. The state of Elam was located just to the
> > > > > east of Sumer but had an unrelated language.
> > > >
> > > > Toivo: you are finally someone here who has a clue, knows what he is
> > > > talking about and doesnt make hot air with out-of-topic postings about
> > > > pseudo-philosophy or not so funny jokes.
> > > >
> > > > Congrats :-)
> > >
> > > How is the fact that someone suggested a connection between Dravidian
> > > and Elamite relevant to the question whether Sumerian is related to
> > > Dravidian?
> >
> > Peter,
> > He is talking about Dravidian languages related to another language
> > (Elamite in this case). And thats relevant to the question, since I
> > was asking both about Dravidian and Sumerian and any relationship
> > known.
> > You are not able to propose which language is related to Sumerian or
> > Elamite or Dravidian... You are not able to propose any idea or
> > hypothesis. So I wonder how you can criticize things you dont know
> > about.
>
> Scholars far more capable than you have been studying these questions
> for well over a century. There is no evidence of any relatives for any
> of those three languages.

Peter,
Previous scholars (even the best ones) didnt find and didnt know
everything, very far from that. In the last ten years, many
discoveries have been done.
There are modern studies (which you seem to ignore) which show a
relationship between Austric (AustroAsiatic + Polynesian) languages
and Sumerian. I already posted a message about it.

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