Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61619
Date: 2008-11-14

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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>


>
> How reliable are reconstructions of non-IE families?
> I realize there are 3 or so reconstructions of Afro-Asiatic, all by
> respected scholars. But how do they compare with IE reconstruction?
> Also Uralic et al. Do we really have anything truly well elaborated to
> compare with yet?
>
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I think there may be much more than 3 reconstructions of Chamito-Semitic,
some of them dealing with the same data with different roots and differents
phonological systems.
I suppose Cybalist is not the right place to discuss this.

A.