Indo-European Words for 'Name'(starkeycomics.com) |
Indo-European Words for 'Name'(starkeycomics.com) |
Because of these similarities, there is a quite plausible hypothesis that the ancestor of the Indo-European languages was some kind of mixed language, which has combined an old Uralic language (from which most of the pronominal/verbal grammar was taken) with a language of a southern neighbor of the Uralic people, perhaps belonging to one of the language families of the Caucasus (from which most of the nouns were taken, with their grammar and phonology).