Re: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 19917
Date: 2003-03-16

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Subject: Re: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?


> I remember the Ural-Altaic hypothesis from kindergarten, and I remember the Italo-Celtic unity hypothesis from the
same period, and the Balto-Slavonic unity. There was a tendency then to find "unities" where we now find "points of contact". Hasn't the world moved on?

It has, but Balto-Slavic has withstood the changes.

Piotr