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Post by king on Jan 19, 2010 23:37:54 GMT -5
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Jan 20, 2010 13:48:51 GMT -5
From what I remember reading a while back - Aryans (being Mediterranean in race) originated from what is now Ukraine and spoke Sanskrit (Lithuanian being even today considered a living fossil of a language and being very similar to Sanskrit with 70% common words) and moved towards what is now India. Segments of populations in western Asia, high caste populations of India and populations of eastern Europe do have genetic similarities which could be perfectly explained by Aryan theory. Loan words from Finnish in Sanskrit could only be explained via this invasion. ------ Distribution of R1a1a (R-M17 or R-M198)
R1a has been found in high frequency at both the eastern and western ends of its core range, for example in some parts of India and Tajikistan on the one hand, and Poland on the other. Throughout all of these regions, R1a is dominated by the R1a1a (R-M17 or R-M198) sub-clade.
Frequency distribution of R1a1a, also known as R-M17 and R-M198, adapted from Underhill et al (2009).
South Asia
In South Asia high levels of R1a1a been observed in some populations. For example, in the eastern and northern parts of India, among the high caste Bengalis from West Bengal like Brahmins and Kshatriyas (72%), Uttar Pradesh Brahmins (67%), Bihar Brahmins (60%), Punjab (47%), and Gujarat (33%) of male lineages[4] have been observed in this lineage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R1a1#Distribution_of_R1a1a_.28R-M17_or_R-M198.29-------- History
Sanskrit is a member of the Indo-Iranian sub-family of the Indo-European family of languages. Its closest ancient relatives are the Iranian languages Old Persian and Avestan.[9] Within the wider Indo-European language family, Sanskrit shares characteristic sound changes with the Satem languages (particularly the Slavic and Baltic languages), and also with Greek.[10]
In order to explain the common features shared by Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages, many scholars have proposed migration hypotheses asserting that the original speakers of what became Sanskrit arrived in what is now India and Pakistan from the north-west some time during the early second millennium BCE.[11] Evidence for such a theory includes the close relationship of the Indo-Iranian tongues with the Baltic and Slavic languages, vocabulary exchange with the non-Indo-European Finno-Ugric languages, and the nature of the attested Indo-European words for flora and fauna.[12]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit#Etymology---------
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Post by Novi Pazar on Jan 24, 2010 7:14:59 GMT -5
I agree with aadmins position, l was going to mention this in the anthro forum but l didn't want to considering its not really a history one.
Many of the northern tribes of india are genetically close to many northern slavic peoples of europe.
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Post by Novi Pazar on Jan 24, 2010 7:17:29 GMT -5
Aadmin, l was listening to news radio afew years ago and l really thought it was in Russian language but it was lithuanian....it sounds so slavic.
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