I was intrigued by this article. What exactly are the
features shared by European IE & Uralic?
What are the implications of this?
If this article is correct, does this place IE
originally to the east of Uralic rather than to the
south? --in Central Asia as Johanna Nichols claimed.
Does it mean that Uralic was originally spoken in the
area from the Urals to the Black &/or Caspian Sea?
If so, is there any evidence of contact between Uralic
and N & NW Caucasian?
Sprachbund
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
. . .
Romance and Germanic languages of Western Europe
(other than English) share many features due to
interaction, both with one another and with Classical
Latin and Greek. Similarly there are also features
common to languages situated in Europe that are not
found in Indo-European languages spoken in India and
Iran, but are found in the Uralic languages. This is
because of the great migrations across Europe.
. . .
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