Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

In the FRench Edition by Ruhlen "'L'origine des langues",
He claims that Burushaski, "Caucasic" and Basque are related
because they share the word :

Basque horotz
"Caucasic" kurtch
Burushaski ghurash

All meaning : "excrement".

Obviously these words are loanwords from PIE s-ker-t "s..t"

so it is no wonder they have failed to prove these languages are
cognate on the basis that they share the same loanwords from PIE.
This is a cause hard to plead.

I suppose there is some "Freudian" lapse in the fact that Ruhlen
chose this word as a proof.
It seems more appropriate as a comment on his work.


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...>
wrote:

>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dene-Caucasian_languages
>
> Burushaski has been all over the place in terms of familial
> classication. Supporters of the Aryan Invasion Theory want it to

be a

> Dravidian language.
>
> "Attempts have been made to establish a genealogic relationship
> between Burushaski and Sumerian,[citation needed] and the

Caucasian,

> Dravidian,[citation needed] and Indo-European[1] language

families;

> Burushaski is also part of the Dené-Caucasian hypothesis, along

with

> Yeniseian, Caucasian, and Sino-Tibetan. However, none of these
> efforts have met with general acceptance."
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burushaski_language
> M. Kelkar
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@>
> wrote:
> >
> > It's something I read years ago. It may have been
> > Bomhard, but I've seen it mentioned several times in
> > postings on the old Nostratic list. I think someone
> > also cited Joanna Nichols and the gist was that both
> > IE and Kartvelian were once east of the Caspian and
> > that there was an intervening language between them
> > that accounted for wanderworts that didn't quite match
> > up.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@> wrote:
> >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> > > <gabaroo6958@> wrote:
> > > > Regarding Georgian --from what I've read,
> > > Kartvelian
> > > > arrived in the Southern Caucasus c. 2000 BC from
> > > > somewhere to the east.
> > >
> > > Rick, can you recall what you read and where?
> > > Aside from being part
> > > of a putative Dene-Caucasian grouping, I wasn't
> > > aware of evidence of
> > > Kartvelian arriving from anywhere at any specific
> > > time.
> > > Dan
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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