"It has often been remarked - and not without reason - that although the grammar of the Anatolian languages would be recognizably Indo-European, the vocabulary would be less so. This is usually attributed to the deeply penetrating influences exercised by strange surroundings not only while the Anatolians were en route, but also after their arrival in Anatolia."
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H.J. Houwinkten Cate, in Encyclopedia Britannica,15th ed. vol I. p 834. quoted in Talageri, The Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism (1993) page 127
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