In 1981, John Colarusso examined typological parallels involving consonantism, focusing on the so-called laryngeals of PIE and in 1989, he published his reconstruction of Proto-Northwest Caucasian (PNWC). Eight years later, the first results of his comparative work on PNWC and PIE were published in his article Proto-Pontic: Phyletic Links Between Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Northwest Caucasian, an event which may be considered the actual beginning of the hypothesis.
Evidenceedit
Examples of similarities that have been noted include:
A case variously named "accusative", "oblique" or "objective", marked with nasal suffixes:
PIE accusative *-m, reflected e.g. in Latinluna 'moon' (nom.) vs lunam (acc.), or Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (anthropos, nom.) vs. ἄνθρωπον (anthropon, acc.).
NWC: Ubykh kwæy 'well (water source)' (abs.) vs kwæyn (obl.).
Referencesedit
Colarusso, John (1997). "Proto-Pontic: Phyletic links between Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Northwest Caucasian". Journal of Indo-European Studies. 25: 119–51.
January 01, 1970
pontic, languages, form, greek, language, pontic, greek, language, families, caucasus, northwest, caucasian, languages, other, uses, pontic, pontic, proposed, language, family, macrofamily, comprising, indo, european, northwest, caucasian, language, families, . For the form of Greek language see Pontic Greek For one of the language families in Caucasus see Northwest Caucasian languages For other uses see Pontic Pontic is a proposed language family or macrofamily comprising the Indo European and Northwest Caucasian language families with Proto Pontic being its reconstructed proto language Pontic controversial GeographicdistributionEurasiaLinguistic classificationProposed language familySubdivisionsNorthwest Caucasian Indo EuropeanGlottologNoneHistory of the proposal editThe internal reconstruction of the Indo European proto language done by Emile Benveniste and Winfred P Lehmann has set Proto Indo European PIE typologically quite apart from its daughters In 1960 Aert Kuipers noticed the parallels between a Northwest Caucasian language Kabardian and PIE It was Paul Friedrich in 1964 however who first suggested that PIE might be phylogenetically related to Proto Caucasian In 1981 John Colarusso examined typological parallels involving consonantism focusing on the so called laryngeals of PIE and in 1989 he published his reconstruction of Proto Northwest Caucasian PNWC Eight years later the first results of his comparative work on PNWC and PIE were published in his article Proto Pontic Phyletic Links Between Proto Indo European and Proto Northwest Caucasian an event which may be considered the actual beginning of the hypothesis Evidence editExamples of similarities that have been noted include Nasal negating particles in both families PIE n Germanic un Romance in Slavic ne NWC Ubykh m Abkhaz m A case variously named accusative oblique or objective marked with nasal suffixes PIE accusative m reflected e g in Latin luna moon nom vs lunam acc or Ancient Greek ἄn8rwpos anthropos nom vs ἄn8rwpon anthropon acc NWC Ubykh kwaey well water source abs vs kwaeyn obl References editColarusso John 1997 Proto Pontic Phyletic links between Proto Indo European and Proto Northwest Caucasian Journal of Indo European Studies 25 119 51 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pontic languages amp oldid 1182830015, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
