Proto-vedic Continuity Theory: Bharatiya languages

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For about two centuries, the issue of Indo-European Linguistics has

virtually has either misled or frozen research studies related to

bharatiya languages.

 

It is time to remedy this situation with a new approach, but based on

bharatiya tradition of bhasha s'iksha.

 

Here is an attempt by Mayuresh Kelkar and S. Kalyanaraman.

 

A two-page summary is provided in this message. Detailed monograph of

about 100 pages with pictures is at http://protovedic.blogspot.com/

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Dhanyavaadah.

 

K.

 

The Proto-Vedic Continuity Theory of Bharatiya (Indian) Languages

 

S. Kalyanaraman and Mayuresh Kelkar

 

(October 2005, Yugabda 5106, Deepavali)

 

Summary: To avoid the pitfalls of invasionist hypotheses to explain

language changes, a Proto-Vedic Continuity Theory for Bharatiya

languages is postulated. This will be tested on the Indo- in the Indo-

European,that is Bharatiya (Indian) languages, which are clubbed in

the hyphenated compound, 'Indo-European' languages.

 

Bharatam janam is the phrase used by vis'vamitra gathina in the

Rigveda. The objective of this monograph is to study the languages of

bharatam janam in a historical and cultural perspective. The Rig Veda

is such a profound document that many centuries of evolution of

language should have occurred before the Vedic mantra-s were

perceived ( dras.t.a). It is, therefore, suggested that there was a

Proto-Vedic language which needs to be unraveled through language

studies.

 

The authors submit that it should be possible to delineate the

languages/dialects spoken by bharatam janam from Proto-Vedic times.

This will be attempted by denying the usefulness of methods used by

Indo-European Linguistics (IEL) that are unfalsifiable, ideologically

driven conjectures. . Was Proto Indo European ever spoken? Who knows?

This is an unfalsifiable statement in IEL. Many unfalsifiable

statements found among proponents and supporters of IEL are presented

as quotable quotes in this monograph. An array of genetic-language

relationship studies from mostly genetic journals to highlight the

slippery nature of the attempts being made to match a scientific,

genetic discipline with unfalsifiable categorizations provided by IEL

studies. Many IEL assumptions are treated as "evidence" in these

articles appearing in "scientific" journals.

 

The monograph is organized in two parts and the following sections,

highlighting the limitations of IEL and the imperative of study of

evolution of Bharatiya languages now spoken by more than one billion

people living in Bharat, that is India.

 

Part 1: Limitations of Indo-European Linguistics

 

'Love' of Sanskrit as a camouflage for evangelism

Unfalsifiable Teach Yourself PIE

Indeterminate laryngeals

Aryan race ideology

Eurocentrism

A fading discipline hangs on to slippery genes

 

Part 2: Bharatiya Language Studies

Studies needed to delineate the Indo- in Indo-European

Study of Prakrits from Paleolithic times

The Proto-Vedic Continiuty Theory of Bharatiya Languages

 

Appendix 1 provides a dialectic on How to study bhasha? S'abda as

Brahman in bharatiya tradition of language studies (s'iksha).

 

 

Appendix 2 discusses c oncordances between Post-Vedic and Avestan.

The Annex provides detail examples of concordances between Vedic and

Avestan.

 

[The term Bhartiya as used in this monograph refers to people

of 'Greater India' comprising the modern nations of Pakistan, India,

Nepal, Bangaldesh, Bhutan and S'rilanka; language contacts evidenced

in Afghanistan, Iran, Mesopotamia and in Indian Ocean Rim states (for

e.g., Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand).]