Meghalayan tribe’s Turkish connection

Various scholars earlier said that Khasi-Jaintia language was an offshoot of the Mankhamer language, a group of the Astro-Asiatic supper family.Pathak said the Lukkan language was a first millennium descendent of the Luwian language, which was widely spoken in western and southwestern Asia Minor during the Bronze age and belonged to the Indo-European family.

The most prominent of the Lukkan deities was called Eni Mahanahi that meant Mother of Gods and later identified with Greek Goddess Leto, and hersanctuary was called Letoon near Janthus. Pathak said the Janthian kings promoted Greek culture in Lukka, particularly in their final years. An inscription found in Letoon said the last Janthian king established the cult of the Greek Goddess Leto in Lukka and founded a temple in her honour in Letoon and brought a priest from mainland Greece to supervise her cult.