Sanskrit and PIE

[Richard Barz]

Just a reminder that the earliest recorded IE literatures are Hittite
(still from a region where great non-IE cultures  flourished
>before the IE intrusion), Greek and Vedic.

Richard Barz
Canberra

At 05:21 PM 9/4/00 +0000, you wrote:
><<<
>A footnote in J.P. Mallory (In search of the Indo-Europeans) says
>that Anna Davies carried out a cursory examination of the Greek
>vocabulary, which revealed that less than 40 per cent of it could
>be ascribed a transparent Indo-European etymology, 8 per cent had
>established non-Greek origins and about 52 per cent had no clear
>etymology.
>
>This is a footnote to the statement that "Yet the linguistic
>evidence taken as a whole does indicate that the Greeks did borrow
>a considerable number of elements from a non-Greek language."
>
>The question is -- what is the equivalent statistic for
>Vedic Sanskrit ?
>>>>
>
>Isn't the bronze age Greek culture (Minoan Crete) a non-IE one?
>Interesting that even though the IE spread all over the world,
>the earliest IE literatures recorded (Greece and Vedic) are from
>regions where great non-IE cultures (IVC, for example) flourished
>before the IE intrusion.
>
>Regards,
>N. Ganesan
>
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