The Alarodian languages are a proposed, controversial language family combining the Northeast Caucasian, or Nakh-Dagestanian, languages with the extinct Hurro-Urartian languages of ancient Anatolia and the Caucasus. The grouping was revived by Igor Diakonoff and developed through comparative work by Sergei Starostin and Sergei Nikolaev published in 1994; many linguists remain unconvinced of a genetic relationship between the two groups, and the name itself, from the Greek Alarodioi recorded by Herodotus, is not confidently connected to the historical Urartians.
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Proto-Language StatusNo Proto-Alarodian reconstruction is described in the source; it notes there is no consensus even on the reconstruction of Proto-Northeast Caucasian, one of the two proposed branches. Sources
1. Alarodian languages, Wikipedia
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A major obstacle to progress on the question (and any other questions about relationships with or within Northeast Caucasian) is the lack of consensus about the reconstruction of Proto-Northeast Caucasian itself.
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