Re: A SinoTibetan-Vasconic Comparison: A very, very, very, veryleng

From: Alexander Stolbov
Message: 1589
Date: 2000-02-19

[Glen]:
> If correct, this would imply the following (renaming VascoCaucasian as the
> "T" Group and SinoDene as the "S" Group in order to use SinoDene for a
more
> specific subgrouping):
>
>
> |-"T" Group (VascoCauc.)-------- Basque, NEC...
> |
> DeneCaucasian---| |------------------ NigerK.
> | |
> | |------------------ Nostratic
> |-"S" Group--|
> | |-- Burushaski
> |----BuruYen----|
> | |-- Yeneseian
> |
> | |------- SinoTibetan
> | |
> | |
> |-SinoDene-|
> | |----- NWC
> |-|
> |----- Na-Dene
>

Glen, does this follow from the scheme: Basque and NEC families form a
superfamily, i.e. a unit of the same rank as Nostratic superfamily? In other
words, is it proven that Basque and Lezghin languages are as closely related
to each other as, say, Yukagir and Hausa or Georgian and Tamil?
If so, when do you think they parted? Are Basques descendants of the first
wave of European farmers who came from Anatolia c. 7000 BC?

Alexander