Re: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Michael J Smith
<lookwhoscross-eyednow@...> wrote:

> Isn't there even a theory put forth by some linguists that all

languages can be traced back to Uralic?

ALL LANGUAGES???

> ANd would it be safe to say that Indo-European, Altaic, and Uralic

are closer to one another than to any other language families (that we
know of) ?

Not very safe as yet.

> The problem seems to be "genetic gaps." we have evidence of

Indo-European languages and Uralic languages, but no "missing link"
language groups between them, and this can be said about many
languages, and even within the Indo-European family. It seems like
languages should have "drifted into each other" more as far as their
evolution.

What do you mean by "drifting into each other"?

Piotr