Mitian
Mitian is a hypothetic language family proposed by Jörg Rhiemeier, 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. The name is derived from the characteristic 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, which has *h1me and *twe.)
Classification
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 appears to form an early divergent branch.
- Mitian
- Kartvelian
- Eurasiatic
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- Indo-European
- West Europic
- Uralo-Siberian
- Uralic-Yukaghir
- Uralic
- Yukaghir
- Beringian
- Chuktoko-Kamchatkan
- Eskimo-Aleut
- Altaic
- Turkic
- Mongolic
- Tungusic