06.01.09

AIT versus OIT

Posted in Uncategorized at 3:00 pm by nemo

Good article from James on OIT versus AIT, and here’s a book on the standard case:

The Horse, The Wheel, and Language, also very interesting.
I guess we will soon be able to determine the answers here, I hope.

2 Comments »

  1. Darwiniana » AIT versus OIT said,

    06.01.09 at 3:52 pm

    [...] on AIT versus OIT (Aryan Invasion theory and Out of India theory), with a link to a review of a new book on defending [...]

  2. nemo said,

    06.01.09 at 9:08 pm

    One problem with the OIT hypothesis is the tricky case of Anatolian Indo-Hittite which has to be the earliest daughter branch off of the proto-Indo-European, or else a parallel at the earliest state of archaic proto-Indo-European, and this doesn’t resemble the Indo-Aryan so closely. This is very complicated stuff and therefore the OIT thesis, which looks convincing on one level, still has a ways to go before it can square with the rest of the Indo-European issues.
    (As far as I know….)

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