Re: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

Gerry,

Restrict your recommendations to things you know something about. "Austro-Asiatic" may be spelt "Austroasiatic" but in either case it is different from "Austronesian". They are different familuies!

Piotr

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From: "Geraldine Reinhardt" <waluk@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?


Austronesian or Austro-Asiatic......aren't they the same? Hypens breakdown on the computer so I recommend using Austronesian as a practicality.
Thus Austronesian (your Austro-Asiatic) is a macro family along with Indo-European, Semitic, Kartvelian, Dravidian, Uralo-Altaic (including Athapaskan), Yukaghirian, Euroasiatic, and Paleoasiatic/Eskaleut. All of these macro families comprise the Nostratic Mega Family.