Dating the final IE unity (was: Re: GREEK PREHISTORY AND LANGUAGE)

[Ralf-Stefan Georg]

>At 11:28 AM 10/13/99 -0400, Sean Crist wrote:
>>-Renfrew proposes that Anatolia is the homeland of the Indo-Europeans.  If
>>so, it is very odd the Hittite, Luwian, and Palaic existed in the midst of
>>languages (Hattic and Hurrian) which are not only not Indo-European but
>>which bear no typological resemblance to Indo-European.

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

If you allow for a little snide (which is not directed against you):

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 ...

St.G.

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