Armenian hypothesis

The Armenian hypothesis suggests that the Proto-Indo-European languages was spoken in the Armenian Highland in the 3rd millennium BC. Scholars Tamaz Gamkrelidze and Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov place the homeland in Armenia.

Related pages
Armenian Highland
Ancient Armenia

References
T. V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov, The Early History of Indo-European Languages, Scientific American, March 1990
I.M. Diakonoff, The Prehistory of the Armenian People (1984).
Robert Drews, The Coming of the Greeks (1988), argues for late Greek arrival in the framework of the Armenian hypothesis.
Martiros Kavoukjian, Armenia, Subartu, and Sumer : the Indo-European homeland and ancient Mesopotamia, trans. N. Ouzounian, Montreal (1987), .

Category:Indo-European
Category:Armenian language
Category:Ancient Armenia
Category:Origin hypotheses of ethnic groups