<b>This thread is for discussing and collecting information on <i>Indo-European Linguistics, IEL</i>, the root of all IE beliefs.</b>
<b>It's also for discussing the place of Indo-European Linguistics, IEL in the anti-AIT perspective.</b>
(Lots of the stuff - in my posts, leastways - will be a repeat of info from other threads in order to bring them together here.)
IE = Indo-European, also called 'Aryan'. These are terms that western scholarship uses to refer to a bunch of languages showing similarities which are therefore thought to be related. Western scholarship also applies these terms to the people who spoke/speak such languages.
IEL = Indo-European Linguistics, field of study of IE/Aryan languages
PIE = Proto-Indo-European, a hypothetical artificially constructed language thought to be the parent of all Indo-European/Aryan languages.
IEL is the root of all the following beliefs fundamental to the IE worldview:
(1) belief in interconnectedness of languages classified as IE through root-parent language PIE.
Remember that IE Studies does not submit just any connection between the languages, but states that they are connected in a particular manner: through PIE, the wholly <i>hypothetical</i> Proto-Indo-European language.
In other words, IEL states that all IE languages are genetically related through their common ancestral language PIE, making them a 'family' of languages.
(2) One of the implications of (1) is the belief in a bunch of ethnically homogeneous people who invented the PIE and spoke it originally: the Indo-Europeans, also called the Aryans
(3) From (2) follows the belief that these Aryans - thought of as being ethnically homogeneous and all - originally spoke their root language in a single stretch of land: their original homeland ('Urheimat')
It is not known where the Urheimat is. But don't worry. Various Indologists and other scholars of IE Studies regularly go off on flights of fancy to locate it in different locales in 'Eurasia' depending on their whims.
(4) One of the implications of (1), (2) and (3) is that presence of Samskritam in India - an IE language according to IEL - is to be explained by the hypothetical Indo-Europeans leaving their hypothetical Urheimat at some point and invading India (like they are also thought to have invaded Iran and other places where other 'IE' languages are found)
(In reality, the order was different: Samskritam 'discovered' by west -> similarity with Latin and Greek and other European languages -> 'IEL language family' -> India must have been invaded because Europe c/shouldn't have been: AIT -> Oryans did it -> definition of Oryans -> Oryans must have had a homeland <- AIT)
(5) Another implication of (1)-(3) is that the Oryans, being ethnically homogeneous, living together in a particular region and speaking the same PIE (thus all of them comprehending each other) must have had a single religious and mythological background
This is then the IE mythos/religio that indological scholars see everywhere in the religions and puranas of various 'IE' countries.
<b>It's also for discussing the place of Indo-European Linguistics, IEL in the anti-AIT perspective.</b>
(Lots of the stuff - in my posts, leastways - will be a repeat of info from other threads in order to bring them together here.)
IE = Indo-European, also called 'Aryan'. These are terms that western scholarship uses to refer to a bunch of languages showing similarities which are therefore thought to be related. Western scholarship also applies these terms to the people who spoke/speak such languages.
IEL = Indo-European Linguistics, field of study of IE/Aryan languages
PIE = Proto-Indo-European, a hypothetical artificially constructed language thought to be the parent of all Indo-European/Aryan languages.
IEL is the root of all the following beliefs fundamental to the IE worldview:
(1) belief in interconnectedness of languages classified as IE through root-parent language PIE.
Remember that IE Studies does not submit just any connection between the languages, but states that they are connected in a particular manner: through PIE, the wholly <i>hypothetical</i> Proto-Indo-European language.
In other words, IEL states that all IE languages are genetically related through their common ancestral language PIE, making them a 'family' of languages.
(2) One of the implications of (1) is the belief in a bunch of ethnically homogeneous people who invented the PIE and spoke it originally: the Indo-Europeans, also called the Aryans
(3) From (2) follows the belief that these Aryans - thought of as being ethnically homogeneous and all - originally spoke their root language in a single stretch of land: their original homeland ('Urheimat')
It is not known where the Urheimat is. But don't worry. Various Indologists and other scholars of IE Studies regularly go off on flights of fancy to locate it in different locales in 'Eurasia' depending on their whims.
(4) One of the implications of (1), (2) and (3) is that presence of Samskritam in India - an IE language according to IEL - is to be explained by the hypothetical Indo-Europeans leaving their hypothetical Urheimat at some point and invading India (like they are also thought to have invaded Iran and other places where other 'IE' languages are found)
(In reality, the order was different: Samskritam 'discovered' by west -> similarity with Latin and Greek and other European languages -> 'IEL language family' -> India must have been invaded because Europe c/shouldn't have been: AIT -> Oryans did it -> definition of Oryans -> Oryans must have had a homeland <- AIT)
(5) Another implication of (1)-(3) is that the Oryans, being ethnically homogeneous, living together in a particular region and speaking the same PIE (thus all of them comprehending each other) must have had a single religious and mythological background
This is then the IE mythos/religio that indological scholars see everywhere in the religions and puranas of various 'IE' countries.