Toto und Harri

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Toto ist eine sinotibetische Sprache, die von etwa 20.000 Menschen in Indien gesprochen wird. Zusammen mit dem Dhimal bildet Toto die kleine genetische Einheit Dhimal-Toto innerhalb der bodischen Sprachen, die eine Untereinheit des Sinotibetischen darstellen…

(Nach Wikipedia)


… Winckler conjectured that this influence was due to the Harri (a people mentioned in the Boghaz-keui documents) whose name he identified with Arya. Hrozny on the other hand has found traces of the Harri language, which he says is certainly not Aryan. If at this early date (1400 B. c.) Aryans were on the move, from the north perhaps, along the road which eventually brought them to India, they may in the course of their migrations have descended upon Mitanni and formed a ruling caste there. We might thus account for the Aryan appearance of some personal names in Mitanni…

(Nach A. E.  Cowley)