Talk:Urbian
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Don't delete this without putting it back where it came from under Neolithic Europe.
- Isn't this just another nostratic theory, based on a few word similarities? 惑乱 分からん 14:22, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- It's more a substrate theory. It doesn't connect living languages but languages hypothetically existing before Indo-European expansion. It talks about what was (hypothetically) there before IE languages and how it was incorporated into some of them. --Sugaar 18:31, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone else feel like writing "Either that or lacking a word for 'city', the Latins invented one that just happened to be slightly like a Basque word"? Because like most similar theories, this one is back-arseward. Grace Note 05:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Uri seems to come from Celtic Ure meaning bull and has nothing to do with Urbs, Iri, Hiri... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.79.141.141 (talk) 20:09, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
