Caucasian and Papuan
Middle Eastern Caucasian lexical similarities to Sino-Tibetan and to the Papuan languages are extremely numerous. It is obvious that it should be the other way around, with basque being close to the Middle Eastern Caucasian languages because of geographical proximity. But this is not the case at al...
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Gobierno de Navarra
1993-12-01
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| Series: | Fontes Linguae Vasconum |
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| author | W. Wilfried Schuhmacher F. Seto |
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Middle Eastern Caucasian lexical similarities to Sino-Tibetan and to the Papuan languages are extremely numerous. It is obvious that it should be the other way around, with basque being close to the Middle Eastern Caucasian languages because of geographical proximity. But this is not the case at all and the problem of why there is such a situation merits attention because it seems that basque and the Middle Eastern Caucasian languages separated earlier along the southern Mediterranean in North Africa.
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| spelling | doaj.art-1fa633b4087d434ca426480a48efff212023-09-15T02:54:50ZengGobierno de NavarraFontes Linguae Vasconum0046-435X2530-58321993-12-016410.35462/flv64.1Caucasian and PapuanW. Wilfried Schuhmacher0F. Seto1Centro de Investigación Riso, DinamarcaKanagawa, Japón Middle Eastern Caucasian lexical similarities to Sino-Tibetan and to the Papuan languages are extremely numerous. It is obvious that it should be the other way around, with basque being close to the Middle Eastern Caucasian languages because of geographical proximity. But this is not the case at all and the problem of why there is such a situation merits attention because it seems that basque and the Middle Eastern Caucasian languages separated earlier along the southern Mediterranean in North Africa. https://revistas.navarra.es/index.php/FLV/article/view/3280 |
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