:::Hi folks, Samuel Noah Kramer: "The first Sumerian rulers kept up an unusually close, intimate connection with a city-state called ARATTA which was probably located in the Caspian Sea territory. The Sumerian language is an agglutinative tongue, reminiscent to some extent of the Ural-Altaic languages, and this fact may also point to the same general area as Aratta." (Kramer, Samuel Noah: The Sumerians, their History, Culture and Character, University of Chicago Press, p.42-43.)