Re: Woof

From: tgpedersen
Message: 44579
Date: 2006-05-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "vadesi314" <geka314@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
>
> > The people "in or near China" who domesticated the dog, are likely
to
> > have spoken a language which was spoken in or near China. That is
more
> > likely to have been ST than IE.
>
> It could've been just as likely a finno-ugrian language


More likely some Paleo-Siberian or Altaic one. I don't know how well
they'd account for that 'collective -n'.


Torsten