[tied] Re:Sumerian and bantu

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 26763
Date: 2003-11-01

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
> I agree. Sumerian _is_ considered an isolate, in the most
conservative
> view. Nostraticists, on the other hand, consider it to be
ultimately
> related to Elamite, Dravidian, Kartvelian, and other Nostratic
languages
> within the past 15,000 years.

And you can find a group discussing sound laws relating Sumerian to
Uralic (and, nominally, Altaic and Dravidian) at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aturan-languages/ .

Richard.