User:Kwékwlos/Possible Japonic relationship with Indo-European

Given the increasingly obvious evidence that Japanese mythology can be identified with Indo-European prototypes (see Witzel's "Vala and Iwato" for one example, which theorizes that Pre-Japonic was adjacent to Pre-Vedic in Central Asia) and that the Yayoi may have received such influence (evident in the Karasuk-style bronze daggers associated with the ancestral Mumun culture in Korea) before migrating to Japan, as well as the tripartite hypothesis in Ryukyuan mythology, the ancient Yayoi people, whose language may have been para-Austroasiatic (a connection between Japonic and Austroasiatic is extremely unlikely based on lexical, morphological and grammatical evidence), must have acquired the Pre-Japonic language spoken by the Karasuk and Tagar cultures (which are mostly of Sintashta origin) from the eastward-moving Indo-European speaking migrants that introduced chariots to Shang China during the late 2nd millennium BCE.

Sound and accent laws are still preliminary; they should be formulated precisely in the future to uncover the relationship between Japonic with Indo-European (and more specifically Indo-Iranian), a largely unexplored prospect. The rest of this page assumes that Japonic was derived from an early Indo-Iranian dialect, originating from the Karasuk/Tagar and earlier Sintashta-Petrovka and Andronovo cultures, that was also possibly ancestral to Nuristani and had began to split from the continuum by 1500 BCE.