The term Alarodian languages was first proposed by the linguistics scholar, Professor of Oriental languages Fritz Hommel (1854-1936) to refer to the combined family of languages of the indigenous, non-Indo-European tribes of ancient Asia Minor and the Caucasus (Proto-Iberian tribes). Further research on this group of languages was later published by K. Ostir (1921, 1922), A. Svanidze (1937), Giorgi Melikishvili (1965), I.M. Diakonoff and S.A. Starostin (1986).
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Literature
- K. Ostir. Beitrage zur Alarodischen Sprachwissenschaft (a monograph), I, 1921 (in German)
- K. Ostir. Alarodische Sprachwissenschaft (a monograph), 1922 (in German)
- A. Svanidze. "Materials for history of Alarodian tribes" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1937 (in Russian)
- G.A. Melikishvili. Questions of the oldest population of Georgia, Caucasus and the Near East (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1965 (in Georgian, Russian summary)
- I. Diakonoff, S. Starostin. "Huro-Urartian as an Eastern Caucasian Language".- Munchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, Baiheft, N.F., 12, 1986 (in English)
- Alarodian languages.- Encyclopedia "Sakartvelo", vol. I, Tbilisi, 1997, pp. 90 (in Georgian)
