Alexander Lubotsky
Alexander Lubotsky
Alexander Markovich "Sasha" Lubotsky, is a Russian-Dutch linguist and Indologist who specializes in the study of Indo-Iranian languages. He is the editor-in-chief of the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project.
"In order to account for this fact, we are bound to assume that the language of the original population of the towns of Central Asia, where Indo-Iranians must have arrived in the second millennium BCE, on the one hand, and the language spoken in the Punjab, the homeland of the Indo-Aryans, on the other, were intimately related."
"I use the term substratum to refer to any donor language, without implying sociological differences in its status, so that substratum may refer to an adstratum or even superstratum."
