Re: Yeneseic and Na-Dene

Let's look at time depth. My dates are guesses --so
please correct them.
When does Na-Dené show up in the Americas? Around
6-8,000 BC?
When does BMAC culture disappear? About 1500 BC?
Yeniseian was somewhere around the source of the
Yenisei River in the Altaic Mountains around when?
About 100 CE?
Are the Altaic mountains close enough to BMAC to have
any relationship?

I'm asking because it would make more sense to check
out the neighborhood first

Another thing, analysis of Native American DNA points
to the region occupied now by the Sakha (Yakuts). Who
was there before the Turks expanded into the region?


--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

> I am glad to finally be able to provide a very
> interesting link to our
> group:
>
>
> http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/docs/vajda-2008.pdf
>
>
> Vajda has made an absolutely brilliant analysis of
> the _now_ certain
> relationship between Siberian Yeneseian and North
> American Na-Dene.
>
> His statement on the proper way to compare language
> families is a classic
> formulation of all the right principles, in my
> opinion. And he applies them
> competently to the hypothesis at hand.
>
> It is particularly exciting to me that he has
> identified several morphemes
> that can be easily connected with my Proto-Language
> monosyllables, the short
> listing of which is at
>
>

http://geocities.com/proto-language/PL-Monosyllables_short.htm

>
>
> It is a validation of the universality of those
> monosyllables.
>
> Some readers may want to compare the meanings of the
> morphemes he has
> identified with the following PL monosyllables:
>
> PL T?SA with YeNa <d>
> PL NHA with YeNa <l> and possibly <tl>
> PL NA with YeNa <n>
> PL QO with YeNa final <ng>
> PL FO with YeNa <w> (2nd p. sing.)
> PL ¿E with YeNa <i> (1st p. sing.)
> PL NO with YeNa <n> (1st. p.)
> PL P?A with YeNa <b> (inanimate)
>
> and others with the connection is less obvious.
>
> I can hardly wait for a Proto-Yeneseian Dictionary.
>
>
> Patrick
>
>

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