Evidence from the Carian language family

"As recently as ten years ago Masson summarized the situation as follows:

Since the script has not yet been completely deciphered, the Carian
language itself remains an enigma. In theory there are two possible
solutions: either Carian unlike Lydian and Lycian is truly an Asianic
, relatively autochthonous and not Indo-European, or else it is an
ancient Anatolian language of Indo-European origin, like the languages
mentioned earlier.

The second solution, if we substitute "Indo-Hittite" for
"Indo-European" is now in the ascendancy, thanks to the unexpected
illumination from Egypt. Some fifty funerary inscriptions, many of
them Carian-Egyptian bilinguals, were found in Saqqara in 1968 (Drews
2001, p. 257)."

The "Indo European" family should be renamed as the Indo Hittite family.

Drews, Robert (2001), "Greater Anatolia, Proto-Anatolian,
Proto-Indo-Hittite, and Beyond," in Greater Anatolia and the
Indo-Hittite Language Family, Robert Drews (ed.), Journal of
Indo-European Studies Monograph Number 38.

M. Kelkar