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F. B. J. Kuiper
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Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus "Frans" Kuiper (7 July 1907 – 14 November 2003) was a Dutch linguist and Indologist.
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The period between the arrival of the Indo-Aryan in the Indian subcontinent and the composition of the oldest Vedic hymns must have been much longer than was previously thought.
Kuiper, F. B. J. 1967. “The Genesis of a Linguistic Area”, Indo-Iranian Journal 10.2-3: 81-102. (Rpt. in International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics 3.1 [1974]: 135-153.) Kuiper (1967: 97)
quoted in Levitt, S. H. (2012). Vedic-ancient Mesopotamian interconnections and the dating of the Indian tradition. Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 93, 137-192.
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