Michael:
>Are Eurasiatic and Proto-steppe incompatible? If not, how would
>you reconcile them?
Proto-Steppe is completely compatible with Bomhard's Eurasiatic.
I call it such because I'm convinced that it was situated in
Central Asia circa 9000 BCE.
I define "Eurasiatic" my own way as being the ancestor of Steppe,
ElamoDravidian and Sumerian. This Eurasiatic grouping would then
in turn be a branch of Nostratic alongside AfroAsiatic and
Karvelian.
>If I understood you correctly in previous e-mails, I gathered that
>you were presenting Uralic, Yukaghir, Altaic, and EskimoAleut as branches
>as well as IndoTyrrhenian, which later divided into Indo-European and
>Tyrrhenian, right?
Not quite. I would group Uralic and Yukaghir closely together into
Uralic-Yukaghir first (c.5000 BCE) before comparing it to
EskimoAleut and ChukchiKamchatkan. Then UYuk, EA and CK are
representative of Proto-Boreal (c.7000 BCE). From there, Boreal may
be compared with IndoTyrrhenian and Altaic (or perhaps
AltaicGilyak), which form the three surviving branches of
Proto-Steppe.
- gLeN
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