Re: IE, AA, Nostratic and Ringo

I changed my e-mail address, so I missed a few posts. I need to make
some corrections:

> You may have also seen how a common word _maliq'a_ was proposed

for "milk".

> It's on a webpage run by Mark Rosenfeld (I think). Someone also

posted this

> list on conlang, which was borrowed from some article:
>
> AJA -- mother, older female relative
> BUNKA -- knee, to bend
> BUR -- ashes, dust
> CHUNGA -- nose, to smell

[...]

This list, it turns out, came from Ruhlen. I found the webpage
explaining how these supposed reconstructions were arrived at. I'll
try to find the URL...

> accurately reconstruct) and Proto-Afro-Asiatic (which would be even

more

> challenging), and ultimately Nostratic and the spurious

classifications of

> Greenberg (Dene-Caucasian and Amerind being the most infamous). I

also

And I found out that Dene-Caucasian was proposed by Starostin, not
Greenberg.

DaW.