SV: Elamite

[Lars Martin Fosse]

Anthony Appleyard [SMTP:mclssaa2 at fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk] skrev 22. november
2000 12:09:

> Before we compare things with Brahui, what came of a thread that was on this
> list or Nostratic list a while ago?, where someone claimed that, of the
> modern outlying northern Dravidian languages:-

>> The Brahui-speakers were descended from soldiers raised in Dravidian South
>> India and dumped in Baluchistan when they got due for discharge.
>> The Kurukh and Malto migrated from South India in recent centuries.
>> Thus, their languages are irrelevant when discussing ancient linguistics.

> Is this genuine?

This is more or less the received scholarly wisdom for the time being. I am
away from my library, so I can't give you any precise references, but I
believe that Bernard Sergeant discusses this in his book "Genese the
l'Inde".

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