Hindus have long been uncertain of or even argued against the AIT (e.g. even from the time of Vivekananda and Aurobindo), but it's not been very long since people actually started questioning the IEL itself.
And yes, numerous scholars in IE Studies themselves have variously questioned:
(a) <i>IEL:</i> are all the languages that are considered Indo-European languages actually derived from PIE? Are they all related in the same way - that is, are they all genuinely IE languages?
(b) <i>PIE:</i> do the IE languages need to have descended from a common ancestor in order for them to show the similarities they have? Or are there other ways in which this could have been accomplished?
(c ) <i>The Indo-Europeans/Aryans:</i> is it necessary for there to have ever been a single ethnic group of people even if there had been a PIE? That is, single common language need not imply a single people who spoke it
(d) <i>IE Urheimat and Mythos and IE 'culture':</i> when such things as IEL, PIE and Indo-Europeans are not a given, how in the world could the IE homeland, religion and culture/society be?
I will repost relevant material on the above and examples for each (taken from other threads) in later posts.
And yes, numerous scholars in IE Studies themselves have variously questioned:
(a) <i>IEL:</i> are all the languages that are considered Indo-European languages actually derived from PIE? Are they all related in the same way - that is, are they all genuinely IE languages?
(b) <i>PIE:</i> do the IE languages need to have descended from a common ancestor in order for them to show the similarities they have? Or are there other ways in which this could have been accomplished?
(c ) <i>The Indo-Europeans/Aryans:</i> is it necessary for there to have ever been a single ethnic group of people even if there had been a PIE? That is, single common language need not imply a single people who spoke it
(d) <i>IE Urheimat and Mythos and IE 'culture':</i> when such things as IEL, PIE and Indo-Europeans are not a given, how in the world could the IE homeland, religion and culture/society be?
I will repost relevant material on the above and examples for each (taken from other threads) in later posts.