Re: [tied] Kurd and Indo-European

 

Mark Odegard wrote:

  Kurdish is an Indo-European language. It is in the Iranian group.  The Ethnologue database or the article in the online Britannica will fill you in on the basic details. The first wave of Indo-Iranian expansion was lead by the Indics, who managed to sprawl over the whole of Central Asia, and get to India-Pakistan. How deeply they penetrated what is now Iran is open to question, but the linguistic evidence says they reached the South Caucasian area and places thereabouts. The Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian superstock would later completely supplant the Indic languages everywhere except India-Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan. Mark.

  Mark,
    Sometime back, 6 months or so, I was scanning web sites on Indo-Iranian.  One of the articles I read was about a people that the Greeks were in contact with, living in the South Caucasus along the Black Sea.  Their names are clearly Indic and not Iranian.  I believe they were in writings by Herodotus.  Unfortunately I lost where I read this and haven't been able to relocate it.  Do you have any information on these people?  It seemed to be a well established state.
                                                        Thanks,
                                                         Steve