Aberdeen
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The thing is, Hurrians had allot of Indo European traditions and if one thing I have learned, it is when linguists classify a language as isolated it could very simply mean that they haven't yet identified it.
Other than that I don't believe that the Medes-Mitanni connection and Umman Manda is connected to Hurrians but that this land, where Hurrians resided too, was populated by Indo European tribes.
As I said I remember sources saying that the Medes were basically descend from the Medes.
You probably misunderstood something. That Umman Manda was located in between Central Anatolia and Babylon (South Mesopotamia) doesn't mean proto Indo Europeans had to have come from there too. Just that this area was a of importance for the Near Eastern Indo European groups. Also the "Anatolian hypothesis" places the origin of Indo European in West_Central Anatolia. While Umman Manda was Central Anatolia to South Mesopotamia.
No, I didn't misunderstand anything. I just don't see the logic of arguing that there were IE speakers anywhere other than the steppes (or possibly the north Caucasus) prior to the bronze age IE expansion. I think any IE languages south of the Black Sea arrived there after the bronze age IE expansion and underwent structural changes because of interactions with other linguistic groups. But if you and Goga don't agree with me, I'm fine with that.