Re[2]: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 19940
Date: 2003-03-17

At 8:10:56 PM on Sunday, March 16, 2003, Geraldine Reinhardt
wrote:

> In Fig. 2.6.2 Cavalli-Sforza presents a Genetic Tree and
> compares it with linguistic families and superfamilies The
> Nostratic Superfamily consists of Afro-Asiatic,
> Indo-European, Dravidian, Uralic-Yukaghir, Sino-Tibetan,
> Altaic, Eskimo-Aleut, Chukchi-Kamchatkan & Amerind.

And it's a remarkably unconvincing comparison. See, for
instance:

http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/3/3-81.html

Brian