Talk:Proto-Armenian language

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[edit] Hurrian or Sumerian influence

as long as we don't get a linguistic reference to Hurrian or Sumerian loanwords, we have to regard this as a popular fantasy. Feel free to cite treatments in peer reviewed linguistic literature. dab (𒁳) 17:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

There are indeed loanwords from Hurrian, this is pretty much accepted, not only from Armenian authors, read the references I have provided at the Urartu talk page. As for Sumerian, this doesn't even worth mentioning, if there are any loanwords from Summerians, it won't only stand for the Armenians, the Babylonians had strong influences in the entire region. Fad (ix) 06:09, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

yes, I suspected as much; it would be nice to have some specific examples of Hurrian loanwords. dab (𒁳) 10:01, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

excellent, I'll have to dig for one of your sources; It will be most interesting to see which soundlaws affected the Uratian loans. dab (𒁳) 10:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

If you want the papers, feel free to request them to me, I'll email them to you. Personally, I am really not interested to engage in BC history, it is too subjective, vague, contradictory, much in contradiction with my rational way of thinking. Fad (ix) 06:41, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "8 or 9 sounds"

Aa, you are welcome to give us an encyclopedic discussion of Armenian phonology at Armenian language. Your text as it was doesn't even remotely qualify as encyclopedic, and typological observations on Armenian phonology are only of limited relevance to a discussion of Proto-Armenian. If you want to help, give us a list of Proto-Armenian sound-laws (we already say they are 'eccentric', which seems to be the point you want to make, but do give us a detailed list, citing Winter or Meillet). dab (𒁳) 23:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)