Man and His Migrations

by R. G. Latham

Instead of enlarging on them, I suggest the following doctrine:—

• 1. That, notwithstanding certain conflicting statements, the populations of Mysia, Lydia, Caria, and part of Lycia, were closely allied.
• 2. That a language akin to the Armenian was spoken as far westwards as eastern Phrygia.
• 3. That some third population, either subject to Persia or in alliance with it, spoke the language of the Lycian inscriptions—properly distinguished by Mr. Forbes and others from the ancient Lycian of the Milyans—which last may have been Semitic.
• 4. That the third language of arrow-headed inscriptions, supposing its locality to have been Media, may have indented the north-eastern frontier.
• 5. That, besides the Greek, two intrusive languages may have been spoken in the north-west and south-western parts respectively, viz.—
  • a. The Thracian of the opposite coast of the Bosporus.
  • b. The Lelegian of the islands.

Of these, the former was, perhaps, Sarmatian, whilst the latter may have borne the same relation to the Carian as the Malay of Sumatra does to that of the Orang Binúa of the Malayan Peninsula.

It may be added, that the similarity of the name Thekhes, the mountain from which the 10,000 Greeks saw the sea, to the Turk Tagh, suggests the likelihood of Turk encroachments having existed as early as the time of Artaxerxes.

Lastly—The [termination -der], in Scaman-der (a bilingual appellation) and Mæan-der, indicates Persian intrusion of an equally early date.

Of the glosses collected by Jablonsky, none are illustrated by any modern language, except the following:—

English	axe.
Lydian	labr-ys.
Armenian	dabar.
Persian	tawar.
Kurd	teper.

English	fire.
Phrygian	pyr.
Armenian	pur.
Afghan	wur, or.
Kurd	ûr.
Greek, &c.	πῦρ, fire, &c.

English	dog.
Phrygian	kyn.
Armenian	shun.
Sanskrit	shune.
Lettish	suns.