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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
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> Genetic Distance and Language Affinities
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> http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm
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> On the genetic distance chart IE and AA speakers appear next to each
> other if that means anything at all to the linguists.
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> M. Kelkar
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I suppose you mean the third diagram, of language affinities. If
so, the answer to your implied question is that it shouldn't mean
anything to anybody. You've fallen into a trap that tree diagrams lend
themselves to. The only thing of significance is that Afro-Asiatic
directly, and Indo-European through Eurasiatic? branch from
Nostratic??. The diagram would mean exactly the same thing if the
Afro-Asiatic and Nostratic? branches were each rotated, putting IE and
AA farthest apart and Sumerian and Chukchi next to each other.
Dan