Was Pre-Greek languages/now Sanskrit/Indus valley

[Stanley Friesen]

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At 05:46 PM 12/11/99 -0600, Rick Mc Callister wrote:
>	Do any of the Hindu deities have Dravidian names that can be dated
>to a very early period?
>	Can other any Hindu loanwords from Dravidian, Mon-Khmer, etc. be
>dated to a period corresponding to the fall of Mohendjo-Daro?

Actually, we could generalize this:
Do the any of the non-IE deity names have recognizable similarities to
*any* known language family?  For that matter, what about other mythic
names and specialized religious terms?

The hypothesis then would be that the Indus Valley culture spoke a member
of that family.

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