Ivanov V.V. Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo-European

In: Shevoroshkin V., Sidwell P. (eds). Languages and their Speakers in Ancient Eurasia. Dedicated to Prof. A. Dolgopolsky on his 70^th birthday / Association for the History of Language Studies in the Science and History of Language. Volume 5. Monograph series 1. — Canberra, 2002. — pp. 143—234.After the discovery of the large Hurrian-Hittite bilingual text K Bo XXXII and some other recent results of excavations, it has become possible to enrich the Hurro-Northern Caucasian comparison inaugurated by the late I. M. Diakonoff and continued by him together with S. A. Starostin. The latter recently found many new and persuasive etymologies connected with the new data. Some additions may be suggested in connection not only with Northern Caucasian but also with problems bearing on Indo-European.