Anatolian Shepherd ANKC Kangal as being a separate breed from the ANKC Anatolian Shepherd. June 2018: The Federation CynoIogique International Standards Commission determined the population of FCI registered Anatolian Shepherd Dogs and Kangals Shepherd Dogs in Turkey were the same breed and belonged to the same breed population. FCI Anatolian Shepherd Dog = Standard No. 331 = FCI Kangal Shepherd Dog. The breed name of Anatolian Shepherd Dog was changed to Kangal Shepherd Dog and the breed standard content was updated. Under the FCI the Kangal Shepherd Dog is not defined as a separate breed to the FCI Anatolian Shepherd Dog. The
Anatolian hypothesis 2014: Bayesian analysis has been criticized on account of its inferring the lifespan of a language from that of some of its words; the idiosyncratic outcome of, for example, the Albanian language raises doubts about the method and the data. Furthermore, other lexicostatistical (and some glottochronological) studies have produced results different from the results produced by Gray and Atkinson., as has a 2015 phylogenetic analysis which instead supports the Kurgan hypothesis. However, the main objection to the Anatolian hypothesis is that it requires an unrealistically early date. Most estimates date Proto-Indo-European between 4500 and 2500 BC, with the most probable