"[K.R. Norman, in his study of the variations between the OIA (Old Indo-Aryan: Vedic and Classical Sanskrit) and MIA (Middle Indo-Aryan: Prakrits), finds MIA dialects contain many forms] which are clearly of IA, or even IE, origin, but have no attested Skt equivalent, e.g. suffixes not, or only rarely, found in Skt, or those words which show a different grade of root from that found in Skt, but can be shown not to be MIA innovations, because the formation could only have evolved in a pre-MIA phonetic form, or because a direct equivalent is found in an IE language other than Skt... the forms in that category go back to 'lost' OIA dialects... I know of no attempt to make a complete and comprehensive collection of the evidence for this interesting category of forms in MIA, and it remains scattered through the pages of Indological writings. I believe that, until such a collection is made, the amount of material available will be underestimated."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Indo-Aryan languages
12 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Indo-Aryan languages →
Related Quotes
"[the Dravidian derivations ... on Sanskrit words [are not ] “self-evident” [but] “a matter of probability and to a ce…"
"MIA and NIA languages are not, strictly speaking, derived from the language of the Rigveda or from Classical Sanskrit…"
"There has been a certain amount of controversy concerning the question of non-Aryan loan-words in Sanskrit, and some …"
"“All these linguists are operating on the assumption, based on other criteria, that the Aryans ‘must have’ invaded In…"
"“not a single case in which a communis opinio has been found confirming the foreign origin of a Rgvedic (and probably…"
"There was a branch of Indo-Aryan which, like the parent Indo-European, had retained the distinction between r and l, …"
"[it is] “always possible, eg. to counter a suggestion of borrowing from one of the indigenous language families by su…"
"Another point is that there may be a covert petitio principii at work here. Many assertions on what can or cannot be …"
"Vedic (and Avestan) had "three genders, three numbers and eight cases, the fullest representation of the Indo-Europea…"
"“All the Dravidian languages known to us fairly bristle with loans from Sanskrit and the Aryan vernaculars. Dravidian…"