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Fun fact I just stumbled upon after reading your comment: "urartian" (or rather, ur artian/artean) directly translates to "between waters". The Urartu region fa
by zazpiak_bat 7y ago
Fun fact I just stumbled upon after reading your comment: "urartian" (or rather, ur artian/artean) directly translates to "between waters". The Urartu region falls indeed between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urartu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urartu
- chr1 7y agoInteresting, but maybe it referred to the Urmia and Van Lakes, because initially Urartu kingdom was smaller and was mostly between the two lakes. Do any of toponym similarites in https://allinnet.info/antiquities/armenia-and-the-basques-spain/ https://allinnet.info/antiquities/armenia-and-the-basques-sp... look anything plausible to you? On one hand it would be cool if languages were related, on the other hand considering how often someone in Armenia claims that X is related to Armenia, that it is hard to take the claims seriously.
- zazpiak_bat 7y agoAbout the lakes you are probably right, both seas are quite far away from each other and it is more feasible Urartu to refer to a smaller region. Having looked at the words in the article, the link between both languages seems to be quite thin. Some of the words may make sense, especially if you take the root Ur. When it comes to Ar-Aram and other words the connection IMO weakens. But that's my point of view as a native speaker without formal studies in philology, take it with a grain of salt.