Arpa Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Here is that site again. Click on the highlights/underline and get a surprise of a lifetime. Keep clicking as each highlight leads to another. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans BTW. PIE means Proto Indo-European Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Arpa, there isn't much surprise in this, nor in the other link. Anatolia and Caucasia are still considered the most likely places where PIE originated by a vast majority of linguists and scholars internationally. However, we are merely talking GEOGRAPHY, not necessarily a people known as the Armenians. PIE divided into dialects and as such spread throughout the rest of the IE-speaking world long before the Armenians were known as a nation. Now even is some or all proto-Armenians were the ones to invent PIE, it still doesn't mean that the people who became the Armenians were the ones to spread PIE or variations thereof. More likely is that the people who spread it were the protos. Proto-Armenians, proto-Persians, proto-Indians, proto-Germans and many more, who all, once upon a time, shared the same habitat and language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Sorry, I was talking about people in the above as opposed to languages. So, as to PIE being "Armenian" (quote unquote because it can't possibly be the Armenian language we speak today), I don't know. I'm finding it hard to believe, but I don't have the necessary info to draw any serious conclusion on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakachik77 Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 (edited) Wikepedia.com is a web-based encyclopedia to which individuals like you and me supply material, so I always regard it with a little doubt as there might be a lot of subjectivity in it. Armenian was not born in Anatolia, Armens along with Phrygians came down to Anatolia from Balkans and got mixed with the local tribal remnants and our present language is a mixture of that but predominantly it's the language that Armens spoke. It is also known that some of Proto-Armenian tribes (like Urartu) spoke non-Indo-European languages. There is a lot of detail about this on this site, check under Culture/Language/Armenian History Edited August 6, 2004 by kakachik77 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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