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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Howey <andyandmae_howey@...>
wrote:
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> Hello, all:
> Is this message not appropriate for this list? I had thought that,
since Altaic is one of the language families that is supposed to be
related to Indo-European, and since Japanese, according to some
scholars, is a member of the Altaic family, that someone on this list
would have been interested in the claims presented on the web-site
that I listed. Could someone, please, at least tell me whether it's
a viable theory or whether the person who wrote it is smoking a
really low-grade brand of crack.
Service.
Hi Andy,
As far as appropriateness, I feel that can be left up to the
moderator, but I just wanted to comment on your statement that Altaic
is "supposed to be related to Indo-European". That is true under both
the Nostratic and the Eurasiatic hypotheses, but I think we should
keep in mind that the majority of linguists do not subscribe to
either. I'm certainly not objecting to discussions based on either
hypothesis- I enjoy reading them- but I do think we should avoid
giving the impression that either is an established consensus.
Ned Smith