Re: [tied] PIE Reconstruction

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 38983
Date: 2005-06-30

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:
>
> My attempt at an internal reconstruction of PIE has
> gone very well.
>
> It also became clear that PIE came from the same
> mother language as Proto-Uralic, and this language
> itself came from the same mother language as
> Proto-Afro-Asiatic. I have reconstructed the basics
> of this language and have only a few uncertainties.
>
> The links between these languages are normal sound
> changes, dissimilation, metathesis and analogy.
>
> If you feel some of this is outside the bounds of
> this list's purpose, let me know.

Such discussion would probably be better on the Nostratic-L group,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nostratic-l . If you have a lot to say
about the non-PIE languages, Nostratic-L is definitely the right place
for it, not here.

Richard, speaking as moderator.