N.R. Waradpande questions the very existence of an Indo-European language family and rejects the genetic kinship model, arguing very briefly that similarities between Greek and Sanskrit must be due to very early borrowing. He argues that the linguists have not been able to establish that the similarities in the Aryan or Indo-European languages are genetic, i.e. due to their having a common ancestry. He alleges that the view that the South-Indian languages have an origin different ,SAID by the 19th-century pioneer of Dravidology, .
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Indo-European language family and Telugu
N.R. Waradpande questions the very existence of an Indo-European language family and rejects the genetic kinship model, arguing very briefly that similarities between Greek and Sanskrit must be due to very early borrowing. He argues that the linguists have not been able to establish that the similarities in the Aryan or Indo-European languages are genetic, i.e. due to their having a common ancestry. He alleges that the view that the South-Indian languages have an origin different ,SAID by the 19th-century pioneer of Dravidology, .
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