Re: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

Hey Piotr, you wrote:

> The classic version of the Nostratic hypothesis (that of the "Moscow
> school", and more or less accepted by Bomhard) groups together
> Indo-European, Uralic (with Yukaghir), Kartvelian, Altaic (= Turkic,
> Mongolian, Tungusic, Korean and Japanese),

Hasn't there been dispute about Japanese and Korean being considered
Altaic languages and also whether Ainu is an Altaic language? I've even
seen a seperate Japanese-Korean family proposed, or both of them as
language isolates.

-Michael

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