Re: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

Oh? What about M. Räsänen (Uralo-Altaic)? Is his information considered passé? About Ainu.....if you wait another decade or so, the language will become extinct and then won't need to fit into any category :-)

Gerry

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From: Miguel Carrasquer

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Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 5:24 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:22:01 -0800, "Gerry" <waluk@...> wrote: >-- Indo-European, Semitic, Kartvelian, Dravidian, Uralo-Altaic (including Athapaskan), Yukaghirian, Euroasiatic, Austronesian and Paleoasiatic/Eskaleut. > >[please note that this listing places both Yukaghirian No it doesn't. >and Athapaskan into Uralo-Altaic and connects Ainu to Altaic]. No-one (not even Ruhlen) believes in Uralo-Altaic anymore. Adding Athabascan and Ainu is just silly. ======================= Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv@...

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