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From: sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen)
Subject: Re: Origins of Chechen language
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In article <ANDERSON.95May7140710@sapir.ling.yale.edu>,
Stephen Anderson <anderson@sapir.ling.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>No.  Chechen is NOT a Circassian language (and thus not related to
>Kabardian, Abzakh, Shapsugh, etc.).  It is a Northeast Caucasian
>language, and ... it has not been demonstrated that there is any
>genetic connection between any two of the three indigenous langauge
>families of the Caucasus  (NWC, ... SC, ... and NEC, ...
>Indeed, there is no evidence ... that any of these three
>groups is related to any other (particular) langauge or group of
>languages. 

What do you say about the evidence that the Hurrian-Urartean languages
were NEC languages?

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