Unknown language discovered in Turkey – Part 2

This article is a continuation of ‘Unknown language discovered in Turkey – Part 1’.

MacGinnis indicated that the list refers to a group of native women in a remote region and transferred to the rule, possibly with force, as was common at that time.

"They could come from the Zagros Mountains in Iran," ventured the teacher, as in Assyrian documents is a reference to a language called "mejranio" which would have spoken in that area, then under Assyrian rule, but which is not know anything else.

"The names read like Lishpisibe, Bisinume, Sasime, Anamkuri, Alaqitapi, Rigahe …" said MacGinnis, who admits he has no clues to the linguistic group to which they might belong.

"I have consulted an expert and we are sure that there is an Iranian language (branch belonging to the Kurdish, spoken today in the area)," he said.

It would be possible, he speculated, that relates to any of the various languages ??spoken in the Caucasus today are part of three linguistic stocks completely isolated from any other language.

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