Re: Nostratic family

[Piotr]:
<<I'm looking forward to the long-promised Nostratic dictionary with 2000 (?!)
etymologies, but after seeing the samples published so far I'm not holding my
breath. Sheer numbers can't compensate for poor quality.>>

Alexander:
I agree, they can't. On the other hand, even 95% of false evidences
can't abolish the rest 5% if they are really reliable.

And what to do with the regular sounds correspondencies? Some of them don't look
trivial:
*l- and *r- in all the branches give *n- in Dravidian;
Nostratic *q- corresponds to IE *h- and disappears in East-Nostratic (Uralic,
Dravidian, Altaic).
(Slava Illichu :)

<<[Alexander]:
Are not we able to reconstruct the initial racial type as we have reconstructed
Proto-Indo-European language? If we found the common genetic complex (maybe
"masked" by other) in Chadic, Tungusic, Dravidian and European groups why could
not we call it "Nostratic racial type"?

[Piotr:] If we did, why not? Do you mean you can detect such a type?>>

Unfortunately, I don't know about such results. But we can hope that in a decade
or two either positive or negative answer will be obtained.

Alexander