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idk in school they really go ham on how exactly our language has elements from the "core" of the indo-european branch, not sure how well the steppe works with t
by ninja-ninja 3y ago
idk in school they really go ham on how exactly our language has elements from the "core" of the indo-european branch, not sure how well the steppe works with the narrative
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoIt's irrelevant, as I point out below. Armenian is not an Anatolian language despite it existing in the Anatolian region. The Anatolian languages are all extinct, and Armenian has its origins out of the Yamnaya migration out of the steppe just like the rest of living Indo-European languages. Armenian is Armenian, not related to Hittite, Luwian, etc. of the Bronze age in any way except as extremely distant cousins.
- fsckboy 3y agoare you saying that the arrows on the map of TFA do not indicate, or are not correct, that Greek and Albanian did not come from the steppe?
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoMy bad, I didn't clue into that visually. That makes me really skeptical of this paper. I just can't see the likelihood that Greek and Armenian are that disjoint from the rest of the family that they could possibly have an origin in Anatolia and not in the same region as the rest of the languages.