Indo-European Languages
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Open Thread – 4/1/2022 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 1 April 2022. Razib Khan opens by previewing a podcast with Francis Young on Baltic paganism, noting how closely living Lithuanian pagan practice resembles Vedic religion and what…
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Tired closing comments on the “Aryan” debate
Before taking a break from the topic, Nachiketa summarises his position on the Aryan debate: he holds ancient genetics to be the strongest method and doubts that primary languages spread…
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Can Linguistics prove AMT & reject OIT ?
The author challenges the claim that linguistics makes India impossible as an Indo-European homeland, saying supporters of the Aryan Migration Theory rarely explain why the evidence is incontrovertible, and works…
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Agriculture and the Indo-Europeans – Steppe and South Asia
The author argues that Proto-Indo-Europeans were farmers rather than pastoralists, citing the substantial agricultural vocabulary Indo-Iranians share with other Indo-European branches and treating the older belief that they lacked it…
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How much steppe is there in Pakistan?
Answering a claim that Pakistanis carry much steppe maternal ancestry, the author cites a mitogenome study finding about 8.4 per cent steppe mtDNA among northern Pakistani Indo-Iranian speakers, and what…
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Monkeys and the Indo-Europeans – Revised & Enlarged
A revised and enlarged post on monkeys and the Indo-Europeans, prompted by a reader’s comment; nearly all of the text, which appears to be in Devanagari, is lost in conversion,…
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Monkey and the Indo-Europeans
Starting from Gamkrelidze and Ivanov’s claim that Proto-Indo-Europeans knew the monkey, the author argues their arguments better support an Indian homeland, and that the word may have entered Indo-European from…
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Open Thread – 03/13/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 13 March 2021, covering a paid Substack piece and Clubhouse chat on the genetics of Italy, Bangladesh’s relative economic success, an upcoming Proto-Indo-European interview and the recovered…
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The Fair-Skinned Sintashta folks did not spread Indo-Aryan languages in India
Introducing a long article in progress, the author argues that recent archaeology, notably the westward migration of Indicine cattle, can build a comprehensive case for an Out of India origin,…
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Steppe lineages in northern Pakisan
The author flags a mitogenome paper on northern Pakistani Indo-Iranian speakers, reproducing its abstract: about 8.4 per cent of their maternal gene pool traces to Steppe-rooted lineages dated to roughly…
