Caucasian and Papuan

W. Wilfried  Schuhmacher; F. Seto

doi:10.35462/flv64.1

W. Wilfried Schuhmacher Centro de Investigación Riso, Dinamarca [Denmark]
F. Seto Kanagawa, Japón [Japan]

Abstract

Middle Eastern Caucasian lexical similarities to Sino-Tibetan and to the Papuan languages are extremely numerous. It is obvious that it should be the other way around, with basque being close to the Middle Eastern Caucasian languages because of geographical proximity. But this is not the case at all and the problem of why there is such a situation merits attention because it seems that basque and the Middle Eastern Caucasian languages separated earlier along the southern Mediterranean in North Africa.

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