What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2

[pusan]

[quote name='G.Subramaniam' date='08 January 2012 - 01:10 PM' timestamp='1326007954' post='114162']

@Pusan, Mittani is derived from sanskrit

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Their kings had names like Dasaratha and Chitraratha

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Please. None of the Anatolian language families are derived from the present form of Sanskrit. Anatolian language family is considered the oldest daughter of the IE family. I'll summarize why (details are in any elementary IE Linguistics text book eg. one by Ben Fortson):



- Hittite still preserves laryngeal sounds which are lost in Sanskrit as well as other sister languages

- Hittitle has regular occurance of verb conjugations with r/n stems - these are vestigial even in Vedic. Totally lost in classical Skt.

- Where are the retroflexes in Anatolian ? Why do cognates travel westwards after undoing the sanskrit sandhi ? :-)

Their kings had names like Dasaratha and Chitraratha

The correct original names are Tus'ratta (unrelated to Dasaratha) - the correct Sanskrit cognate (not root) is Tvesa-ratha (having an attacking chariot). It's basic phonetics that 'u' sound changes to 'v' (glide), not otherwise. The rule is quite well known by Indian linguists in antiquitiy - eg Panini (the rule is called samprasarana). If 'Tus' meant 10 in Mitanni, then we have an absurd result:



Sanskrit (dasha) > Mitanni (tus) > Greek (Deka)



How does it lose the initial 'd' sound transforming into 't' and then regain the 'd' sound ?



Linguistic reconstruction is not about "apparent" similarity but regularity of sound change. Otherwise we get incorrect results (Goropoianism).



Presence of apparently Sanskrit proper names doesen't tell us directionality. It needs deeper linguistic analysis. Hittite has other names like Biriyamedha (Skt cognate Priyamedha).

Their numbering system, 1 was Eika, as in Sanskrit and not Eiva as in Iranian

It was "aiga-" in Hittite (ref wikipedia), that's directly derived from PIE *Hoikwo

The white pigmentation of Europeans is due to a mutation in gene SLC24A5, and this is dated to 4000BC by dna analysis, and the earlier version of this SLC24A5 gene is in India



Meaning, no white skin anywhere in the world before 4000bc, and no european grave has R1A or R1B before 2600bc

Thanks. I entirely agree with you on this. Claim is not that "white" western europeans invaded India. Claim is that from somewhere in Eurasian steppes, movement of people and sometimes only linguistic influence radially outwards (to europe, anatolia, india, tarim basin) happened.