Re: [tied] PIE's closest relatives

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:52:11 -0800 (PST), David Steel
<valrkirin2@...> wrote:

>I have read (or re-read in one case) recently two books. J. P. Mallory's
>"In Search of the Indo-Europeans" judges that PIE was most closely related
>to Proto-Finno-Uralic. M. Ruhlen's "The Origin of Language" asserts that
>Proto-Semitic and Proto-Kartvelian are more closely related.

Not that Ruhlen's opinions carry much weight, but I'd be very surprised if
Ruhlen said that. In general, he tends to follow Greenberg, and Greenberg
does not include either PAA or PK in his Eurasiatic grouping (which does
include PIE and PU).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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