Re: Urartu.

Just a statement and several questions

The information that the Classical people
of the Crimea represented a Thracian-speaking
island, suggests an earlier wider distribution
on the southern Ukrainian steppe.

With this said,what were these Thracian-speakers
called and how Thracian was their dialect?
Was it Thracian or was it similar to Tracian and
something else? Was it actually more than one dialect?
Could these Thracian-speakers be a remnant
tribe of the Cimmerian confederation?

Turning to the range of the Armenian-speakers.
Is it possible that the Scythians, a Scythian-like
group, or the Massagetae people were Armenian-speakers?
What real evidence do we have that the Scythics
were Indo-Iranian-speakers?


JS Crary