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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: What are Scythians?
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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 13:12:43 GMT
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In article <3b4j3s$mo4@kcl.fi>, Tero . Tommila <sepe@rankki.kcl.fi> wrote:
>In <sarimaCzr97q.4oI@netcom.com> sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>>Certainly,
>>except for Hittite and its relatives, all of the languages of
>>Anatolia in the earliest times are Caucasian.

>Do you mean Hattic, too ? Evidently, Hurrian-Urartian/Chaldean/Vannic is
>Caucasian-related, but Hattic isn't related to either Hittite or Hurrian.

	According to some Russian linguists, Hattic is related to 
Abkhazo-Adyghian, part of the (North) Caucasian family.

>>In this, admittedly speculative, model,
>>Basque is a long-surviving relic of this early spread of agriculture.

>What about a connection between early Canary Islands population (Guanche ?),
>Basque and Pictish -> an essentially maritime culture ?

	I wouldn't count on that. The Basque people of historical times 
were holed up in the Pyrenees, rather far from any ocean.

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