John:
>The split of Nostratic into its daughter languages I thought you had
>agreed was definitively a mesolithic and not a chalcolithic-late
>neolithic phenomenon. Kartvellian had long since split from
>Nostratic.
Yes. I thought we agreed that Kartvelian and Eurasiatic were migrants into
the Middle East and Fertile Crescent from Africa whereas AA remained in
Ethopia (Bernal).
Also, p.109 of Bomhard's "Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis" with
added emphasis on key words...
"The earliest recorded language was Sumerian - the Sumerians were located in
CENTRAL and southern Mesopotamia. Semitic people were located in the
immediate NORTH and west. The earliest recorded Semitic language was
Akkadian. Further north, in modern-day TURKEY, Caucasian languages were
spoken."
Just redraw the map, John.
- gLeN
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