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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Kurdish langauge is indo-European langauge..proven fact
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In article <32E64275.39F6@sn.nono>, Anders Blehr  <ablehr@sn.nono> wrote:
>Maz wrote:
>
>> [...] The people of Daghestan,
>> Chechnya, Gorgestan (Georgia), etc... are not Russian. They are not
>> Russian in blood or language or culture. They are Aryan in blood, language
>> and culture and as such are Iranian, regardless of what some map says.
>
>I don't know what language(s) the Daghestani and Chechnyans (sp?) speak,

Chechens.  Their language, like the languages of the Ingush, Kalmyks,
Abkhazians, Laz, etc., is not Indo-European.  The same goes for the
Dagestani languages.  The only Indo-European languages of Cis- and
Transcaucasia (besides Armenian and recently-introduced ones like Russian
and Ukrainian) are Kurdish, Tat, Ossetian, and a handful of smaller
Indo-Aryan dialects.

>but Georgian is definitely not Indo-European, and thus not "Aryan in
>language" (I don't know about the "Aryan in blood" thing, thus I refrain
>from commenting on it).

Somehow I doubt this, unless a large number of Indo-Aryan invaders were
coaxed to abandon their ancestral tongue in favour of indigenous
languages.

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