Gerry:

>What term do you use when referring to the pre-Nostratics?

Speaking _linguistically_ I feel that the ancestor of Nostratic
is Dene-Caucasian. Dene-Caucasian should be comprised of
NigerKordofanian, BuruYen, Nostratic, SinoDene and VascoCaucasic
(NEC, HurroU & Basque). Dene-Caucasian is *still* not the ancestor
of all existing human languages. This goes back some 30,000 years
of so.


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