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Armenian Highlands
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Linguistic Substrate Influence
The linguistic history of the Highlands is profoundly marked by contact languages. The substrate influence upon Proto-Armenian is hypothesized to derive from a language family distinct from the surrounding Indo-European and Semitic branches. This unattested substrate language is often implicated in the unusual phonological behavior found in [classical Armenian dialec…