Talk:Proto-Persian'

Is this an althistory where Dravidian became a major language family, instead of being restricted to South India? Nik 09:52, 1 November 2007 (PDT)

No. Just look at the thing - it looks nothing like Dravidian. (Three stop phonation series, no geminates, and only one coronal but two dorsal POAs, for just the few most glaring feature mismatches thus far.) Earth' branches from ours a few hundred thousand years ago: we get multiple surviving hominid species etc. The "present day" is a millenia or two off from ours, too.

The allusions are per the wider historical role played by the family. Tsonboran is pretty much the Sumerian analog, in a nod to the Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis... And yes "allusions", as there are more of these. The Altaic' family (see Proto-Altaic') for instance is something of an Afro-Asian parallel, and the alleged Betamax (actually, that one has a proper interuniverse name too: "Ouiqál") is a "pseudo-Spanish". There's more, but these are the most up-front about it. --John Vertical 08:13, 2 November 2007 (PDT)

Ah, okay. I thought by "analogue" you meant that it was descended from it. I know only a little bit about modern Tamil (and no other Dravidian languages), and nothing about reconstructed Proto-Dravidian.

Multiple surviving hominid species? How'd that happen? Nik 16:07, 2 November 2007 (PDT)