From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 42977
Date: 2006-01-16
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:55 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: The personal pronouns of PIE (and other families) are
loans
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> Aha. Therefore I must conclude:
> PIE is basically an Austronesian (cybalist: howl!) or Tai-Kadai
> (cybalist: scream!) language relexified by an unknown language.
>
> That should keep us entertained in January. Hehehe.
>
>
> Torsten
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Patrick:
Why would this, in your opinion, be a preferable hypothesis to one simply
linking Austronesian and/or Tai-Kadai _TO_ AA (and PIE) through a
language parent earlier than Nostratic?
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