Gerry:
>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.
No, no! Gerry, where are you getting this?? Austronesian and
Athabascan are definitely not considered by most to be part of
the Nostratic family. Take them out!
Yukaghir is thought to have the closest affinities with Uralic,
so one might tentatively speak of a Uralic-Yukaghir family.
"Paleoasiatic" is too vague a term to be meaningful. If you are
refering to the CKam family by this term, then it's most probably
related to EskAleut, yes. However, Ket is most assuredly not
related to Nostratic.
- gLeN
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