Glen- Sino-Caucasian and Nostratic

Glen, do you Sumerian as being more with Nostratic or Sino-Caucasian?

Unrelated question #2: Do you see a Semitish or Berberish substrate
(or any substrate for that matter) in Germanic speaking northern
Europe? Wikipedia says (not that that means anything) that a pre-
Germanic substrate can't be detected in Northern Europe.

Unrelated question #3: Did you check out that Nuclear Rabbit band I e-
mailed you about?

Unrelated question #4: Do you think the History Channel should be
called the Hitler Channel or the Nazi Channel? I do, cuz that's all
they ever show.
Ritalin's kickin' in, gotta go do something productive,

-Michael

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
>
> Miguel:
> > I see no reason whatsoever to include Basque in Sino-Caucasian.
>
> The pronouns relate better that way, especially with NEC (since
> NWC is from the east, from SinoDene, imho). So Basque /-t/ and
> /-k/ relate to pronouns in NEC which seem to revolve around
> *co and *hWo.
>
> Miguel:
> > Chukchi-Kamchatkan is surely Nostratic.
>
> I agree.
>
>
> >>Or could Nostratic, Sino-Caucasian and Na-Dene be three branches
of
> >>an earlier macrofamily?
>
> Miguel:
> > They could be.
>
> I think they really are but with Burushaski-Yen. and Caucasic
> (NEC, HurroUrartian, Basque) being two other related families.
> NWC would go with SinoDene (or "SinoCaucasian" if you want).
>
>
> = gLeN