The Aryan Problem A Linguistic Approach

Author : Satya Swarup Misra
Publisher : Munshiram Manoharlal
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Indo-Aryan languages
ISBN : UOM:39015033086169

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The Aryan Problem, a Linguistic Approach by Satya Swarup Misra Pdf

Description: The Aryan Problem-a Linguistic Approach presents fresh linguistic evidence to solve several complications of the issue. Archaeological evidence is also presented side by side when it has been considered to be complimentary to the linguistic evidence. The Aryan problem is attacked chiefly with a revolutionary reassessment of the date of Rigveda on the basis of fresh linguistic evidence assisted by the Archaeological evidence. The date of Rigveda has been proved to be beyond 5000 BC. The revised date of Rigveda solves several other problems; for example the Indus civilization naturally comes late than the Vedic civilization. Since fresh Archaeological evidence proves Indus civilization to be Aryan; but according to the revised date of Rigveda, the Indus civilization indicates the Puranic stage or a later stage. The original home of Indo-European has also been reconsidered and it has been shown that it was possible for the Aryans to go to other parts of Indo-European area from India. The evidence of the migration of the Gypsies gives a clue to the change of Proto Indo-European a to a, e, o in several Indo-European languages and to migrations from India in ancient days. A probable common origin of Indo-European and Dravidian has also been attempted. The work presents evidence of horse for Aryan migration from India to outside. Besides evidence of cotton, iron etc. have also been utilized for fixation of the date of Rigveda. Thus the work presents sufficient evidence for a reconsideration of several vital problems of Aryan migration.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:45228790

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Browne, Byron by Anonim Pdf

May contain: Resumes, newspaper articles, magazine articles, invitations to exhibition openings, gallery hand-outs, check-lists of exhibitions, advertisements, obituaries, 35 mm. slides of the artist's work.

Author : Valentyn Taranets
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783668703124

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The African Theory of Aryan Origin. A Linguistic Approach by Valentyn Taranets Pdf

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Französisch - Linguistik, Note: 4,0, Internationale Universität für Geisteswissenschaften Odessa, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In this work the problems of origin and migration of Aryans and especially the development of their language have been studied. The analysis of these problems has led to the formation of the African theory of the Aryan ethnic group origin. This hypothesis is the cornerstone of this monograph, covering all of its chapters. As the material testifies, primary signs of the phonetic formation of the Indo-European protolanguage have their origin in the Bantu languages and other languages of Africa. They explain the «law of open syllables» in Slavic languages. In general, the linguistic analysis indicates the migration routes of the Aryans, who departed from the African continent in about VII century B. C. and headed off in the direction of Asia Minor and the Mediterranean coast. At that time the Aryan community split into two groups – the Western, which went from Asia Minor to the Balkans, forming Hittite, Armenian, Greek, Albanian languages, and Eastern group, which travelled through the Caucasus from the East and met with Finno-Ugric tribes. Subsequently, the Aryan group was divided into two subgroups: the Eastern, which went to China to form the region of Ordos (Tocharian language), and the Western, which occupied the Northern Black Sea steppe of Ukraine to the Carpathians. In III Millennium B. C. there has been a breakdown of this Aryan ethnic group, which gave birth to Slavs, Balts, Germans, Celts, Illyrians and Thracians who migrated into Central and Northern Europe. Earlier Indo-Iranians moved through the coastal lands to the North of India. On the whole, this study demonstrates convergent development of peoples, according to which the Aryans initially consisted a heterogeneous ethno-lingual totality which, on the basis of territorial proximity and Gentile, formed into a relatively unified ethnic group and «higher» language (Koine) which evolved into Indo-European languages.

Author : Edwin Francis Bryant,Edwin Bryant,Laurie L. Patton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0700714634

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The Indo-Aryan Controversy by Edwin Francis Bryant,Edwin Bryant,Laurie L. Patton Pdf

The articles in this survey of the Indo-Aryan controversy address questions such as: are the Indo-Aryans insiders or outsiders?

Author : Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015028929043

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The Problem of Aryan Origins from an Indian Point of View by Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna Pdf

This volume takes up ?from an Indian Point of View? a cluster of important historical questions about India?s most ancient past and formulates fresh answers to them in great detail with the temper of a scrupulous scholar.This edition, extensively enlarged with five supplements,demonstrates for the period after 1980 at still greater length ? with the same tools of widespread scholarship the validity of the first edition?s thesis.

Author : Roger Blench,Matthew Spriggs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134828777

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Archaeology and Language I by Roger Blench,Matthew Spriggs Pdf

Archaeology and Language I represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the first of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be very similar. While there is a new awareness that these disciplines can be used to complement one another, both rigorous methodological awareness and detailed case-studies are still lacking in literature. Archaeology and Language I aims to fill this lacuna. Exploring a wide range of techniques developed by specialists in each discipline, this first volume deals with broad theoretical and methodological issues and provides an indispensable background to the detail of the studies presented in volumes II and III. This collection deals with the controversial question of the origin of language, the validity of deep-level reconstruction, the sociolinguistic modelling of prehistory and the use and value of oral tradition.

Author : Shantaram Bhalchandra Deo,Suryanath Upendra Kamath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Indo-Aryans
ISBN : UOM:39015042145204

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The Aryan Problem by Shantaram Bhalchandra Deo,Suryanath Upendra Kamath Pdf

Author : Danesh Jain,George Cardona
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781135797119

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The Indo-Aryan Languages by Danesh Jain,George Cardona Pdf

The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each chapter on the individual language covers the phonology and grammar (morphology and syntax) of the language and its writing system, and gives the historical background and information concerning the geography of the language and the number of its speakers.

Author : Edwin Bryant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198031512

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The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture by Edwin Bryant Pdf

Western scholars have argued that Indian civilization was the joint product of an invading Indo-European people--the "Indo-Aryans"--and indigenous non-Indo European peoples. Although Indian scholars reject this European reconstruction of their country's history, Western scholarship gives little heed to their argument. In this book, Edwin Bryant explores the nature and origins of this fascinating debate.

Author : Ram Sharan Sharma
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 8125006311

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Looking for the Aryans by Ram Sharan Sharma Pdf

Who were the Aryans? Where did they come from? Did they always live in India? The Aryan problem has been attracting fresh attention in academic, social and political arenas. This book identifies the main traits of Aryan culture and follows the spread of their cultural markers. Using the latest archaeological evidence and the earliest known Indo-European inscriptions on the social and economic features of Aryan society, the distinguished historian, R. S. Sharma, throws fresh light on the current debate on whether or not the Aryans were the indigenous inhabitants of India. This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of India and its culture.

Author : Douglas A. Kibbee
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027246033

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History of Linguistics 2005 by Douglas A. Kibbee Pdf

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Author : Colin P. Masica
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521299446

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The Indo-Aryan Languages by Colin P. Masica Pdf

In his ambitious survey of the Indo-Aryan languages, Colin Masica has provided a fundamental introduction which will interest not only general and theoretical linguists but also students of one or more of these languages who want to acquaint themselves with the broader linguistic context. Generally synchronic in approach, concentrating on the phonology, morphology and syntax of the modern representatives of the group, the volume also covers their historical development, areal context, writing systems and aspects of sociolinguistics. The survey is organised not on a language-by-language basis but by topic, so that salient theoretical issues may be discussed in a comparative context.

Author : Camiel Hamans,Hans Henrich Hock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192562913

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Language, History, Ideology by Camiel Hamans,Hans Henrich Hock Pdf

This volume presents twelve in-depth case studies that critically examine the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact with ideology. These varying interactions have been present since the birth of historical-comparative linguistics as a field of study. Work in historical linguistics may be appropriated or rejected for ideological reasons, most notably in the debates surrounding the Indo-European homeland; it can also by influenced by ideological biases, as in the 'alternative' histories that have been proposed for Moldovan and Maltese. The development of linguistically-defined nation states may itself fuel linguistic change, for instance through the suppression of minority languages or the division of existing languages to mirror political divisions, as occurred in the Balkans; or it may lead to the formulation of pseudo-histories designed to give a nation a more prestigious past. The book will be of interest not only to historical linguists but also to anthropologists, historians, and all those interested in language policy.

Author : Salikoko Mufwene,Anna Maria Escobar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 947 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009115773

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The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact by Salikoko Mufwene,Anna Maria Escobar Pdf

Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - has been pervasive in human history. However, where histories of language contact are comparable, experiences of migrant populations have been only similar, not identical. Given this, how does language contact work? With contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the first in a two-volume set - delves into this question from multiple perspectives and provides state-of-the-art research on population movement and language contact and change. It begins with an overview of how language contact as a research area has evolved since the late 19th century. The chapters then cover various processes and theoretical issues associated with population movement and language contact worldwide. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the dynamics of social interactions in diverse contact settings and how the changing ecologies influence the linguistic outcomes.

Author : Linda R. Waugh,Monique Monville-Burston,John E. Joseph
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1113 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009301992

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The Cambridge History of Linguistics by Linda R. Waugh,Monique Monville-Burston,John E. Joseph Pdf

The establishment of language as a focus of study took place over many centuries, and reflection on its nature emerged in relation to very different social and cultural practices. Written by a team of leading scholars, this volume provides an authoritative, chronological account of the history of the study of language from ancient times to the end of the 20th century (i.e., 'recent history', when modern linguistics greatly expanded). Comprised of 29 chapters, it is split into 3 parts, each with an introduction covering the larger context of interest in language, especially the different philosophical, religious, and/or political concerns and socio-cultural practices of the times. At the end of the volume, there is a combined list of all references cited and a comprehensive index of topics, languages, major figures, etc. Comprehensive in its scope, it is an essential reference for researchers, teachers and students alike in linguistics and related disciplines.