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Proto-Armenian, as the ancestor of only one living language, has no clear definition of the term. It is generally held to include a variety of ancestral stages of Armenian between Proto-Indo-European and the earliest attestations of Classical Armenian . It is thus not a proto-language in the strict sense, but "Proto-Armenian" is a term that has ...
The name Armeno-Phrygian is used for a hypothetical language branch, which would include the languages spoken by the Phrygians and the Armenians, and would be a branch of the Indo-European language family, or a sub-branch of either the proposed "Graeco-Armeno-Aryan" or "Armeno-Aryan" branches. According to this hypothesis, Proto-Armenian was a ...
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History. The origin of the Proto-Armenian language is subject to scholarly debate. The more genetically backed Armenian hypothesis would postulate the Armenian language as an in situ development of a 3rd millennium BC Proto-Indo-European language, [7] while the less genetically backed Kurgan hypothesis suggests it arrived in the Armenian Highlands either from the Balkans or through the Caucasus.
This is a list of the hypothetical Armeno-Phrygian peoples and tribes. Armeno-Phrygians is the name given to the hypothetical common ancestors of both Phrygians and Armenians .
Proto-Armenian is the earlier, unattested stage of the Armenian language which has been reconstructed by linguists. As Armenian is the only known language of its branch of the Indo-European languages, the comparative method cannot be used to reconstruct its earlier stages. Instead, a combination of internal and external reconstruction, by reconstructions of Proto-Indo-European and other ...
Wikidata. Q3848498. Proto-Armenian is a reconstructed language. Its words and roots are not directly attested in any written works, but have been reconstructed through the comparative method, which finds regular similarities between languages that cannot be explained by coincidence or word-borrowing, and extrapolates ancient forms from these ...
This document provides a critical review of the problem of identifying the Proto-Armenians, or earliest speakers of the Armenian language. It examines legends from Armenian, Greek, Jewish, Georgian and Arab sources regarding the origins of the Armenian people. The central Armenian legend describes Hayk as the first ancestor, who settled in what ...
