"Indo-European is a branch of Indo-Uralic which was radically transformed under the influence of a North Caucasian substratum when its speakers moved from the area north of the Caspian Sea to the area north of the Black Sea."
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Kortlandt, Frederik, 2011: An Outline of Proto-Indo-European
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