"As it happened, such considerations played a decisive role and the eminent linguist M. Emeneau wrote (1954: 282): βAt some time in the second millennium BC a band or bands of speakers of an Indo-European language, later to be called Sanskrit, entered India over the north-west passes. This is our linguistic doctrine which has been held now for more than a century and a half. There seems to be no reason to distrust the arguments for it...β"
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Linguists from the United StatesYale University alumniMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyUniversity of California, Berkeley facultyPeople from Nova Scotia
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1954 Linguistic prehistory of India. Proceedings of the American Philological Society 98: 282-292.
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Murray Barnson Emeneau
Murray Barnson Emeneau (February 28, 1904 β August 29, 2005) was the founder of the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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