Texekutyun kakachi masin11/19/2022 ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, as Fortson (2004) comments, 'by the time we reach our earliest Armenian records in the 5th century AD, the evidence of any such early kinship has been reduced to a few tantalizing pieces'. Armenian shares the augment, and a negator derived from the set phrase Proto-Indo-European language * ne h₂oyu kʷid ('never anything' or 'always nothing'), and the representation of word-initial laryngeals by prothetic vowels, and other phonological and morphological peculiarities with Greek. Hamp (1976, 91) supports the Graeco-Armenian thesis, anticipating even a time 'when we should speak of Helleno-Armenian' (meaning the postulate of a Graeco-Armenian proto-language). Georg Renatus Solta (1960) does not go as far as postulating a Proto-Graeco-Armenian stage, but he concludes that considering both the lexicon and morphology, Greek is clearly the dialect most closely related to Armenian. Meillet's hypothesis became popular in the wake of his Esquisse (1936). Antoine Meillet (1925, 1927) further investigated morphological and phonological agreement, postulating that the parent languages of Greek and Armenian were dialects in immediate geographical proximity in the Proto-Indo-European period. The hypothesis that Greek is Armenian's closest living relative originates with Holger Pedersen (1924), who noted that the number of Greek-Armenian lexical cognates is greater than that of agreements between Armenian and any other Indo-European language. ![]()
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