Nuristani (was k' > ts > c-hachek order of changes?)

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>strand at sedona.net writes:

<< From the cumulative evidence it would appear that the Proto-Nuristanis
>were ethnically non-Aryas who were swept up in the earliest expansion of
>those Aryas who later became Iranians

-- we should be careful to maintain the distinction between ethnic and
linguistic descriptive terms here.

The Nuristani languages are unquestionably a subgroup within Indo-Iranian;
possibly a coequal third part of that subgrouping.