Re: Books for sanskrit self-study

Any ideas on how they got so far west?

I do know that there was a trade between what is now Iraq to SE
Asia in Tin going back to Sumerian times..

Hittite and Hurrian and like got that far west.

But Romany are they decendent of lower caste Indians or even go
back to days before the caste system got entrenched or what?

What is what the Romany are good at, the caste in India and
their place in the caste system?

Have they been a help in recreating older related languages?
Such as trying to figure out what the root language, and how is
was spoken.

Mike




----- Original Message -----
From: "Benct Philip Jonsson" <bpjonsson@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Books for sanskrit self-study


> Michael Adams skrev:
> > Wasn't it partially linguistic records that showed that the
> > Gypsy/Romany, originally come from India?
> >
> > "Aryan" parts or the Dravidian parts or what?
> >
> > Mike
>
> Romany can with the methods of comparative philology
> be shown to be a group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken
> in the Middle East, Europe since the late Middle Ages,
> and later also carried to the Americas.  Not surprisingly
> they can be shown to be most closely related to Kashmiri
> and Punjabi, which are spoken in the North-West of the
> Indian peninsula.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Benct Philip Jonsson" <bpjonsson@...>
> > To: <CONLANG@...>
> > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 8:07 AM
> > Subject: Re: [OT] Books for sanskrit self-study
> >
> >
> >
> >>Philip Newton skrev:
> >>
> >>>On 7/7/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpjonsson@...>
wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>BTW I once read about a Swedish gypsy man who
> >>>>came to the Sanskrit professor at Uppsala (IIRC)
> >>>>because he wanted to learn "Sannskriften".
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>"Truth writings"?
> >>>
> >>>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Close enough: "The true writing"!
> >>
> >>--
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
>
> /BP 8^)>
> --
> Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
>
>     a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot
>
>                                  (Max Weinreich)

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