Hurrian-Urartean (was: Re: Dating the final IE unity)

[Stanley Friesen]

At 01:28 AM 10/20/99 +0200, Ralf-Stefan Georg wrote:

>>Indeed a strong case can be made for them being related to (part of) the
>>North Caucasian Family.

>a case has been made for Hattic being related to North-West-Caucasian
>another case has been made for Hurro-Urartaean being related to
>North-East-Caucasian
>and yet another case has been made for NW-Cauc being related to NE-Cauc

>neither of these cases is, imho, very strong ...

IMHO, the book I read made a more than creditable case for the
Hurrian-Urartean relationship to NE-Caucasian, and a mildly suggestive case
for the Hattic-NW-Caucasian.

I would say the first was certainly a stronger case than the one for the
existence of a Ural-Altaic family.

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