Re: [tied] Sino-Caucasian and Nostratic

On Mon, 17 May 2004 18:55:30 +0000, Michael Smith
<mytoyneighborhood@...> wrote:

>Miquel, I've never heard that Basque and NE and NW Caucasian might
>be part of Nostratic, but these are part of the proposed Sino-
>Caucasian macrofamily.

I didn't suggest NE and NW Caucasian were part of Nostratic.
I see no reason whatsoever to include Basque in
Sino-Caucasian.

> So do you see these as well as Sumerian and
>Chukchi-Kamchatkan being more likely placed with Nostratic than with
>Sino-Tibetan and the other proposed families in Sino-Caucasian?

Chukchi-Kamchatkan is surely Nostratic.

>Or could Nostratic, Sino-Caucasian and Na-Dene be three branches of
>an earlier macrofamily?

They could be.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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