Re: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

From: Geraldine Reinhardt
Message: 19899
Date: 2003-03-16

Hi Michael,
 
Austronesian or Austro-Asiatic......aren't they the same?  Hypens breakdown on the computer so I recommend using Austronesian as a practicality. 
Thus Austronesian (your Austro-Asiatic) is a macro family along with  Indo-European, Semitic, Kartvelian, Dravidian, Uralo-Altaic (including Athapaskan), Yukaghirian, Euroasiatic, and Paleoasiatic/Eskaleut.  All of these macro families comprise the Nostratic Mega Family.
 
Is this listing now complete?
 
Gerry

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael J Smith
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Cc: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

Hi Gerry, you wrote:

> Based on the lectures by Valery P. Alexeev, I have constructed the
> following Nostratic Mega Family:
>
> -- Indo-European, Semitic, Kartvelian, Dravidian, Uralo-Altaic
> (including Athapaskan), Yukaghirian, Euroasiatic, Austronesian and
> Paleoasiatic/Eskaleut.

Gerry, isn't Austronesian part of the Austro-Asiatic (wasn't this
formerly known as Indo-Pacific?) macro-family, and thus a separate
macro-family?  Or are you proposing that Nostratic and Austro-Asiatic
could have once been in one large macro-family?

-Michael
>
> [please note that this listing places both Yukaghirian and
> Athapaskan into Uralo-Altaic and connects Ainu to Altaic].
>
> Is this listing now complete?
>
> Gerry



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