George:
>>Yes. The Kartvelians came up from the south. So they were NWC in origin,
>>but that still doesn't connect anything with Kaskians.
>
>No, the link between NW Caucasian (Adygo-Abkaz) and S. Caucasian
>(Kartvelian) is held by specialists to be no longer sound,
You misunderstood completely. If you look carefully at my website,
you'll learn that I don't believe that Kartvelian and NWC are closely
related at all and I even have family trees drawn showing the proximity
(or lack thereof) between Kartvelian and NWC under the "Origin of Language"
link.
"They" in my second sentence doesn't refer to the Kartvelians. It refers to
the topo/hydronyms. Kartvelian is classified as a Nostratic language while
NWC is not. I meant that the Kartvelians (of non-NWC relation) came from the
south into the Caucasus.
Again however, what does this have to do with Kaskians?
- gLeN
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