[quote name='Virendra' date='28 December 2011 - 06:39 PM' timestamp='1325077311' post='114102']
I don't remember any linguistic/archeological finding that shows Sanskrit (substantial Sanskrit) being found in the central Asian region which is considered the original home of Aryans.
Even after assuming that Aryans developed Sanskrit after coming to India:
If I would consider they invaded us, then their majority would still have stayed at that base location.
If I would consider they migrated, there is no calamity or other drastic cause to suggest they migrated entirely leaving no population behind.
In both the cases we should have seen Sanskrit in Central Asia, but there is no trace. There is also no mention from the Aryans about their base land (central Asia) even once in the Vedas that they wrote.
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Linguistic arguments appear to be OT to this thread still ...
- After the dispersal of Indo-European languages, Eurasian steppes were swept by people speaking Altaic languages, so no trace of IE derived languages are spoken there.
- Bronze age Eurasia did not have major city states where population could settle for a reasonable time period. It's mostly camp sites. Longer term settlements are found to the eastern (Sintashta) and western extremes (Cucutenyi Tripolye).
- Sanskrit definitely developed on the Indian subcontinent. It has elements not found in any other sister IE languages.
- Reconstruction of PIE (Proto-Indo-European), the parent language of Sanskrit, Greek, Romance, Slavic, Germanic, Lithuanian etc is sound science based on principles of phonetics and phonology. It cannot determine the precise homeland, but it does indicate that neither of the daughter languages (that includes Sanskrit) could have given birth to other languages. So there definitely was a parent language.
- Calamities aren't the sole cause of language dispersals. Greater mobility provided by horse domestication on the steppes is a more likely cause.
Expecting modern residents of Central Asia understanding Sanskrit is akin to the modern residents of Indus valley understanding the script of the Indus Seals.
I don't remember any linguistic/archeological finding that shows Sanskrit (substantial Sanskrit) being found in the central Asian region which is considered the original home of Aryans.
Even after assuming that Aryans developed Sanskrit after coming to India:
If I would consider they invaded us, then their majority would still have stayed at that base location.
If I would consider they migrated, there is no calamity or other drastic cause to suggest they migrated entirely leaving no population behind.
In both the cases we should have seen Sanskrit in Central Asia, but there is no trace. There is also no mention from the Aryans about their base land (central Asia) even once in the Vedas that they wrote.
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Linguistic arguments appear to be OT to this thread still ...
- After the dispersal of Indo-European languages, Eurasian steppes were swept by people speaking Altaic languages, so no trace of IE derived languages are spoken there.
- Bronze age Eurasia did not have major city states where population could settle for a reasonable time period. It's mostly camp sites. Longer term settlements are found to the eastern (Sintashta) and western extremes (Cucutenyi Tripolye).
- Sanskrit definitely developed on the Indian subcontinent. It has elements not found in any other sister IE languages.
- Reconstruction of PIE (Proto-Indo-European), the parent language of Sanskrit, Greek, Romance, Slavic, Germanic, Lithuanian etc is sound science based on principles of phonetics and phonology. It cannot determine the precise homeland, but it does indicate that neither of the daughter languages (that includes Sanskrit) could have given birth to other languages. So there definitely was a parent language.
- Calamities aren't the sole cause of language dispersals. Greater mobility provided by horse domestication on the steppes is a more likely cause.
Expecting modern residents of Central Asia understanding Sanskrit is akin to the modern residents of Indus valley understanding the script of the Indus Seals.