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| '''Mitian''' is a hypothetic language family proposed by [[User:WeepingElf|Jörg Rhiemeier]], consisting of [[Europic]], [[Uralo-Siberian languages|Uralo-Siberian]], Altaic and perhaps Kartvelian, though the latter case is doubtful. | | '''Mitian''' is a hypothetic language family consisting of [[Europic]], [[Uralo-Siberian]], Altaic and Kartvelian. |
| Possible further members are Sumerian and Etruscan-Lemnian, but these languages are only poorly known and much is still controversial about them. Mitian is thus a subfamily of [[Nostratic]], if the latter represents a valid grouping.
| | It is thus a subfamily of [[Nostratic]]. |
| The name is derived from the characteristic shapes of the 1st and 2nd person pronouns which are '''*mi''' and '''*ti''', respectively, or similar. | | The name is derived from the characteriticv shapes of the 1st and 2nd person pronouns which are '''mi''' and '''ti''' or similar. |
| | | (The most likely Proto-Mitian forms are '''*'mi''' and '''*twi''', based on evidence from Indo-European.) |
| ==Classification==
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| Within Mitian, Europic, Uralo-Siberian and Altaic seem to form a closer group, for which many long-range comparatists use the term [[Eurasiatic]], while Kartvelian, if it belongs here at all, appears to form an early divergent branch.
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| * '''Mitian''' | |
| :* [[Eurasiatic]]
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| ::* [[Euro-Siberian]]
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| :::* [[Indo-Uralic]]
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| ::::* [[Europic]]
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| :::::* Indo-European
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| :::::* possibly further languages ([[Hesperic]], [[Danubian]])
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| ::::* Uralic
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| :::* Eskimo-Siberian
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| ::::* Yukaghir
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| ::::* Chuktoko-Kamchatkan
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| ::::* Eskimo-Aleut
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| ::* Altaic
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| :::* Turkic
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| :::* Mongolic
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| :::* Tungusic
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| :* uncertain members
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| ::* Kartvelian
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| ::* Tyrrhenian (Etruscan, Rhaetic, Lemnian)
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| ::* Nivkh
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| ::* Korean
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| ::* Japonic
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| [[Category:Historical linguistics]]
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Revision as of 14:01, 28 June 2011
Mitian is a hypothetic language family consisting of Europic, Uralo-Siberian, Altaic and Kartvelian.
It is thus a subfamily of Nostratic.
The name is derived from the characteriticv shapes of the 1st and 2nd person pronouns which are mi and ti or similar.
(The most likely Proto-Mitian forms are *'mi and *twi, based on evidence from Indo-European.)
