Hurro-Urarteo-Turcica: Linguistic Contacts between the Hurro-Urartian and Turkic Languages

This paper explores possible linguistic contact between the Turkic and Hurro-Urartian language families through new lexical and morphological comparisons. It identifies several likely Hurro-Urartian loanwords in Turkic, mostly in basic vocabulary, and notes parallels in morphology. The distribution of these items suggests direct, late contact. A historical scenario is proposed in which Proto-Hurro-Urartian speakers, originally near the southeastern Caspian Sea, migrated westward under Achaemenid pressure. The analysis focuses on compelling examples beyond accidental phonetic similarity.