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The Lost Legion myth is probably not significantly true, but it is fun, and that's what counts (infosec.pub)
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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

The evidence in the first paper is a bit thin (to say the least)

Well... it is. Something like k→x~h→Ø isn't weird at all, so the correspondence set isn't weird. But it's still too small to rule out alternate hypotheses, like coincidence and borrowing; specially because only a few of those words are core vocab, and those families (Yeniseian, Mongolic, Turkic, Tungusic) interacted so much that there's a lot of noise there.

Still tempting though; specially given localisation.