Re: [tied] searching for common words for all today's languages

At 12:20:54 PM on Friday, February 3, 2006, ytielts wrote:

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> Is there any information available for the correspondent
> sound roots in the superfamily of Eurasian(60,000-40,000
> years ago as proposed by Merritt Ruhlen in 1944), from
> which some big language families such as Afro-Asiatic,
> Eurasiatic including indoeuropean languages and
> Dene-Caucasian involving Chinese, my first language, by
> the way, are believed to derive by the main stream
> genetists like Cavalli-sforza, Peter Underhill(both are
> the authoritative genetists working with the HGP) and
> linguists like Merritt Ruhlen?

If I may quote the late Larry Trask, in a 5 October 2003
post to sci.lang:

First, Ruhlen is not recognized by anybody in linguistics
as a member of the profession. Every single linguist who
is acquainted with his work regards him as a crackpot and
a charlatan.

Brian