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==General information== | ==General information== | ||
Takkenit is an [[w:Agglutinative language|agglutinative language]], which was typical for the region it came from at those times. It shows many lexican parallels with steppe languages to the south-east, which means, its homeland was somewhere to the east of the [[w:Caspian Sea|Caspian Sea]] having been much larger that it is now and covering lowlands of a modern [[w:Volga | Takkenit is an [[w:Agglutinative language|agglutinative language]], which was typical for the region it came from at those times. It shows many lexican parallels with steppe languages to the south-east, which means, its homeland was somewhere to the east of the [[w:Caspian Sea|Caspian Sea]] having been much larger that it is now and covering lowlands of a modern [[w:Volga River|Volga river]] basin. It is hard to estimate the total number of speakers, but it probably wasn't different from other prehistoric languages (no more than 5 000 native speakers considering the climate in that area and a stage of technological development - Takkenit people were hunter-gatherers and fishers, so their population density was relatively low). | ||
===External history=== | ===External history=== | ||
Once upon a time I happened to read an article about lexical similarities between Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic and I asked myself, how that language could have sounded. It became a bit interesting to me, but there was just too little information on this topic. So I did my own research (maybe it should not be called a "research", but rather an extrapolation) and found just enough to create a daughter-language of a common ancestor of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic (which was not my goal at first, but why not?) and saw what it was like. It seems to me, that there too little evidence left indeed, so a proper reconstruction can not be made: Proto-Indo-Uralic was spoken circa 10 000 BCE or even longer ago if it existed at all. | Once upon a time I happened to read an article about lexical similarities between Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic and I asked myself, how that language could have sounded. It became a bit interesting to me, but there was just too little information on this topic. So I did my own research (maybe it should not be called a "research", but rather an extrapolation) and found just enough to create a daughter-language of a common ancestor of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic (which was not my goal at first, but why not?) and saw what it was like. It seems to me, that there too little evidence left indeed, so a proper reconstruction can not be made: Proto-Indo-Uralic was spoken circa 10 000 BCE or even longer ago if it existed at all. | ||