Re: Languages of Afghanistan in Antiquity

[Joachim Pense]

Am 9 Dec 2006 11:18:08 -0800 schrieb Brablo:

> I have strong reasons to believe that the languages spoken in ancient
> Afghanistan was an Indo-Aryan one, and not the Indo-Iranian ones spoken
> today. Moreover, we know that the Afghanis were, by and large,
> subscribers of Hindu-based religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism.

So you imply that Indo-Iranian was still spoken in Afghanistan at the
time of Ashoka the Great? When did the change to the Iranian take
place?

Joachim