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From: sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen)
Subject: Re: What are Scythians?
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 01:39:42 GMT
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In article <hubey.784662659@pegasus.montclair.edu>,
H. M. Hubey <hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu> wrote:
>sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>
>>What were the linguistic affinities of the *Cimmerian* language?
>
>>I suspect it was probably Indo-European, but what branch?
>
>
>Why couldn't it be the ancestor of one of the CAucasian languages?

Oh, it could be.  But the recent identification of the
Hurrian-Urartian languages as Caucasian tends to put the
homeland of the Caucasian languages in Anatolia, not in
the Ukraine.  [In fact this makes it quite likely that
the '-nth-' substratum of south-central Europe is
also Caucasian, or closely alied to it].

My reason for suggesting IE is that the area is, IMHO, the
best candidate for the IE homeland, and it seems at least
reasonable that an IE language would have persisted there
until the Scythian invasion.
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