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Armenia, Subartu And Sumer by M. Kavoukjian is inspired by the Armenian hypothesis of Indo-European origins. It seeks to establish an ethnic Armenian identity for the Armani mentioned by Naram-Sin, for "Armani-Subari connections" and "Armani-Subari-Sumer relations". To this day the Assyrians, who are direct descendants of Sargon of Akkad, and his grandson Naram-sin, refer to Armenians by this same form Armani

In certain theories for locating the Urheimat (homeland) of the Proto-Indo-European language, the Kuro-Araxes culture is identified with the speakers of the Anatolian languages, and even as an earlier Urheimat. Scholars Tamaz Gamkrelidze and Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov place the homeland in Armenia.

References

• James P. Mallory, "Kuro-Araxes Culture", Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.

• T. V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov, The Early History of Indo-European (aka Aryan) Languages, Scientific American, March 1990

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