"This thesis will receive—and has already received—cheers from dilettantes. Dilettantes desperately need one thing: the proof that the population of the Armenian Plateau spoke Armenian ever since the Palaeolithic period, if possible."
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D'iakonov, I. M. 1985. "On the Original Home of the Speakers of Indo-European." Journal of Indo-European Studies 13, nos. 1-2:92-174. (156-157). quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 13
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