# Mainstream opinion rejects Euphratic, chiefly because Indo-European is not expected in fourth-millennium Iraq and the…

> Mainstream opinion rejects Euphratic, chiefly because Indo-European is not expected in fourth-millennium Iraq and the proposed matches are not…

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# Mainstream opinion rejects Euphratic, chiefly because Indo-European is not expected in fourth-millennium Iraq and the…

Mainstream opinion rejects Euphratic, chiefly because Indo-European is not expected in fourth-millennium Iraq and the proposed matches are not systematic; Whittaker himself reports that Rubio rejected it.

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## What it means

Key question[What about the Sumerian language itself is still unknown after 170 years of study?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT3N5AH6P/what-about-the-sumerian-language-itself-is-still-unknown)

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Part of it[Does Sumerian have any demonstrable relative or substratum, or is it an isolate?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT86CFAB2/does-sumerian-have-any-demonstrable-relative-or-substratum)

4 answers, none ahead yet

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Answer this evidence bears on[Whittaker's Euphratic contact language](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/answers/ANS0DEDWYC3NPZ9/whittakers-euphratic-contact-language)

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## Sources 2

[Sumerian language (Wikipedia article)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJNJFJGDJ/sumerian-language-wikipedia-article)

contributors 2026

SRC

[The Sumerian Question: Reviewing the Issues](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHQE9W64H/the-sumerian-question-reviewing-the-issues)

Whittaker 2005

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Mainstream opinion rejects Euphratic, chiefly because Indo-European is not expected in fourth-millennium Iraq and the… [Evidence EVD0DEDYWEH6TNJ]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYWEH6TNJ
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