Re: [tied] Re:Sumerian and bantu

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 26736
Date: 2003-10-31

Marco:
>Sumerian and Bantu show no similarity at all. There's nothing in
>their lexicon and grammar supporting a similar point of view.

I agree. Sumerian _is_ considered an isolate, in the most conservative
view. Nostraticists, on the other hand, consider it to be ultimately
related to Elamite, Dravidian, Kartvelian, and other Nostratic languages
within the past 15,000 years. Bantu is never connected with
Sumerian except by fringe amateur linguists who like to propose
shocking but unrealistic scenarios based on nothing but their own
linguistic fantasies.


= gLeN

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