1. History of the proposal

2. Evidence

3. References

Pontic is a proposed language family or macrofamily, comprising the Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian language families, with Proto-Pontic being its reconstructed proto-language.

History of the proposal

The internal reconstruction of the Indo-European proto-language done by Émile Benveniste and Winfred P. Lehmann has set Proto-Indo-European (PIE) typologically quite apart from its daughters. In 1960, Aert Kuipers noticed the parallels between a Northwest Caucasian language, Kabardian, and PIE. It was Paul Friedrich in 1964, however, who first suggested that PIE might be phylogenetically related to Proto-Caucasian. In 1981, Colarusso examined typological parallels involving consonantism, focusing on the so-called laryngeals of PIE and in 1989, he published his reconstruction of Proto-Northwest Caucasian (PNWC). Eight years later, the first results of his comparative work on PNWC and PIE were published in his article Proto-Pontic: Phyletic Links Between Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Northwest Caucasian, an event which may be considered the actual beginning of the hypothesis.

Evidence

Examples of similarities that have been noted include:

• Nasal negating particles in both families:
  • PIE n-: Germanic un-, Romance in-, Russian ne-.
  • NWC: Ubykh m-, Abkhaz m-.
• A case variously named "accusative", "oblique" or "objective", marked with nasal suffixes:
  • PIE accusative -m, reflected e.g. in Latin luna 'moon' (nom.) vs lunam (acc.), or Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (anthropos, nom.) vs. ἄνθρωπον (anthropon, acc.).
  • NWC: Ubykh k^wæy 'well (water source)' (abs.) vs k^wæyn (obl.).

References

• {{cite journal | author=Colarusso, John | authorlink = John Colarusso | title=Proto-Pontic: Phyletic links between Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Northwest Caucasian | journal=Journal of Indo-European Studies|year=1997|volume=25|pages=119–51}}

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