Re: Nostratic: Errata

Manuel:

I wrote my Nostratic info after midnight and didn't read it carefully before posting.

The following paragraph contained a couple of slips; it implied, for example, that Altaic belonged to Altaic. Here's a corrected version.

Nostratic is only one of a number of proposed "macrofamilies". Indeed, most of the "families" of the New World, Africa, Australia or Melanesia are much more tentative groupings than the Indo-European family (which is hardly surprising, given the lack of historical evidence for them) and might well be regarded as "macrofamilies". Even some of the members of Nostratic are not very securely established and are not regarded as true families by everyone. For example, some scholars prefer to split Altaic into three unrelated groups: Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic. Most Nostraticists, on the other hand, believe that Altaic is a bona fide family and, moreover, that Japanese and Korean also belong to it.

I'm very sorry to hear of those terrible floods in Venezuela.

Piotr