Re: Basque/Georgian

Glen wrote

> If we view
> Eurasiatic as expanding towards the eastern steppe, Sumerian pretty

much

> holds the original locale, Elamite is a little further east,

Dravidian some

> more and Steppe is fully so. When one draws out the family tree, this

should

> be represented. As such, we might speak of an ElamoDravidian

subbranch under

> Eurasiatic, seperate from Sumerian, with a DravidoSteppe subsubbranch

which

> in turn has a Steppe subsubsubbranch.

This proposal contradicts the evidence of the Sumerians themselves that
they came from Dilmun (Bahrein), and settled first at Eridu (the most
southern Sumerian city), and did not settle further north than Kish.

The Sumerians arrived over a pre-Sumerian substratum (which may have
been closer to Elamic), for which place names, agricultural products
and a number of professions all give evidence.

Regards

John