Hiho,

I'm still not ready to accept NEC coming from Central Asia because of its
affinities to HurroUrartian and Hattic in Anatolia but I have thought up a
more credible way in which we could have borrowing between SinoTibetan and
NEC...

Well, there is good news and bad news. I can think of a time when the
ancestral forms of NWC, NEC and SinoTibetan (or rather the DeneC dialect
that affected SinoTibetan, to appease Guillaume) as well as Nostratic may
have been in close quarters. The bad news is that it could in no way be the
neolithic. I'm thinking postglacial - 18,000-15,000 BCE. We might then
conceive of a bit of a linguistic "convergeance", as it were, of these
prehistoric languages where numerals and perhaps other things were borrowed
amongst the Middle-Eastern population. This is the closest I personally can
come to accepting borrowing in this case. Thoughts?

- gLeN
XOXOXO



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