Mitian

Mitian is a hypothetic language family proposed by Jörg Rhiemeier, consisting of Europic, Uralo-Siberian, Altaic and perhaps Kartvelian, though the latter case is doubtful. 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. The name is derived from the characteristic shapes of the 1st and 2nd person pronouns which are *mi and *ti, respectively, or similar.

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, if it belongs here at all, appears to form an early divergent branch.

• Mitian

• Eurasiatic

• Euro-Siberian

• Indo-Uralic

• Europic

• Indo-European
• possibly further languages (Hesperic, Danubian)

• Uralic

• Eskimo-Siberian

• Yukaghir
• Chuktoko-Kamchatkan
• Eskimo-Aleut

• Altaic

• Turkic
• Mongolic
• Tungusic

• uncertain members

• Kartvelian
• Tyrrhenian (Etruscan, Rhaetic, Lemnian)
• Nivkh
• Korean
• Japonic