[tied] substratum ( it was Re: Creole Romance?)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
> > No, it's a fact. As I made clear, in Italy alone, a dozen or more
> > independent language families were spoken before the rise of the

Roman

> > Empire. There were hundreds of language families spoken in the
> > Americas before European colonization. The same goes for Africa,

New

> > Guinea.

Bold statements! Can you justify them? What did Italy have besides
Nostratic languages? Are you completely certain Greenberg's Amerind
is nonsense? Even if it is, hundreds or dozens of families?

Richard.