Re: Proto-Tsimshian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Cardoso" <entrelenga@...>
wrote:

>
> I am not sure if this has been discussed here before (or if it is
> on-topic), but I would like to know of the validity of this theory:
>
> Proto-Tsimshian: A New World Indo-European Language, by John A.

Dunn (2001)

> http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/D/John.A.Dunn-1/text/p1.htm
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Clayton
>

Well, while the idea seems very strange on the surface, I daresay it's
handy in explaining why Chukchi has the pronouns "egum" and "egut" for
1st and 2nd person singular...