"What really matters is the fact that there are no proto-lndo-European loanwords in Uralic (or Finno-Ugric) and no Uralic or Finno-Ugric loans in Proto-Indo-European. It strongly suggests that there was no territorial vicinity between Proto-Indo-European and proto-Uralic or proto-Finno-Ugric, that is that Proto-Indo-European was not spoken in or near the Volga or Ural region, including the steppes to the North of the Caspian Sea (Gimbutas's "Indo- European homeland")."
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Dolgopolsky (1990-93): (242-243) in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press.
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