Questioning the Origin of Indo-European: A Comparative Evolutionary Analysis of Hittite and Cushitic (Oromo)
Keywords:
Oromo, Cushitic, Hittite, Anatolia, Indo-European, Proto-Indo-European, Classical Greek, Latin, Black AfricaAbstract
Hittite, in particular, and Anatolian, in general, encompasses both new insights and obscurantism.
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