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According to Tsung Chang's research, proto-Chinese language was heavily influenced by Indo-European- Almost 2/3rd of basic Chinese vocabulary was IE loanwords!

Was the 'Yellow emperor'(~2400 BCE), father of Chinese culture & language a nomadic invader from India?
"I have traced about 1500 cognate words,roughly two-thirds of the basic vocabulary in Old Chinese....found in all spheres of life including kinship, animals, plants, hydrography, landscape, parts of the body, politics and religion and even pronouns & prepositions"
-Tsung Chang
We already know of Uttarakurus repeatedly mentioned in Bronze age Vedic texts as old as the Brahmanas as living somewhere north of Kashmir. Tocharian is a centum language, which means it left India in very ancient times.

The influence on Chinese language is also from Centum!
"Yellow emperor gave hundreds of things their right names, in order to illumine the people about common goods"
-Confucian text Li-Chi(Book of Rites)

He revolutionized China with wheeled wagon transportation. Where was Chariots & spoked wheels invented? https://twitter.com/JoeAgneya/status/1025397577460506624?s=20
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