tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post2977330183206005777..comments2024-03-28T21:52:52.100-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: Why Care That A Dead Language Was Discovered?Andrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-20006555171407330322012-05-14T18:27:25.778-06:002012-05-14T18:27:25.778-06:00Coming from you particularly and on the field of h...Coming from you particularly and on the field of historical linguistics, I am gladly surprised to be in quite strong agreement with what you wrote here. <br /><br />Certainly this new language reinforces the notion of a very diverse linguistic reality of West Asia with no trace of Indoeuropean languages until the groups you mention arrived (first the Anatolian-Hittite group, then the Mittani/Indo-Aryan shallow layer and finally the Iranian conquest of several successive layers).Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com