Re: question - Turco-Japanese (a thought experiment for the group here)

In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Roger Mills <rfmilly@M...> wrote:

>Something that has always intrigued me about Anatolia-- what
>happened to all the Greek- (and perhaps other-)speaking people who
>were there before the Turks came? Did their languages have no effect
>on Turkish?  Only the Armenians seem to have survived.

What about the Georgians and the Azerbaijani?  A number of smaller
ethnic groups have surfaced in that region since the collapse of the
Soviet Union.

Charlie