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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/ 
The file will also be uploaded on the files section. A summary plus 
album of pictures is also mirrored at 
http://spaces.msn.com/members/sarasvati97
 
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).]








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