Re: THE ARYAN INVASION MYTH

analyst41@xxxxxxxxxxx (in sci.lang):



I was only responding to the poster who immediately
characterized(facetitiously, I am sure) a suggestion of Indian
outmigration to Europe in ancient times as an "Invasion". Like it or
not 'Aryan Invasion" of the subcontinent lurks like a bad smell around
"IndoEuropean" hist ling.


I was only responding to you who characterizes Aryan Immigration as
invasion.

How responsible was William Jones for the AIT (to me a suggestion that
anything but some basic lexical items of Sanskirt came from outside of
India is an AIT - the conquest/migration aspect means nothing to me -
although I have cited here a direct quote from Jones where he says
Sanskrit was bequeathed to India by conquerors (words to that
effect)).

Didn't Jones believe IE languages came from India?


start quote:

The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful
structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin,
and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them
a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of
grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident;

end quote.

It is difficult to understand how an objective philologer who
believed the above (who couldn't yet know about Hittite, Kentum/Satem
etc. which allegedly proved after his time that Sanskrit could not
have been "PIE") could draw any conclusion other than that Greek and
Latin are largely derived from Sanskrit.


As I said.

I think it was Saussure a century later who threw those many a's out of
reconstructed PIE.

Joachim



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