Re: Subcontinental Language Isolates
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 8, 2002, 19:59 |
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Eamon Graham wrote:
>Thanks Roger for the tip; I'll see what if I can find it at our uni
>library.
>
Further to that-- I googled for Nihali (3 hits, but a cross-ref. to Nahali--
are they the same?). And my memory was jogged re the SOAS, the obvious
place to look for info on such languages. (Though as I recall you live in
France??, but surely must get to London on occasion.....)
>I'm working on building a conculture and conhistory and conreligion
>around a fictional group somewhere in India and/or Pakistan (I
>haven't decided where yet) that speak a language isolate (my first
>language isolate!). It's a bit of a challenge but in doing research
>I expect I'll learn a lot about the Dravidians and the Indo-Aryans
>and the early history of the continent. I'm going to try to tie it
>in with my Bauhinese project.
The "Dravidian Etymological Dictionary" by Burrow and Emeneau (Oxford 1961)
contains a wealth of vocabulary from a vast number of Drav. languages, and
should be easier to find than the multi-volume LSI.
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