From: Rick McCallister
Message: 50228
Date: 2007-10-08
> In the FRench Edition by Ruhlen "'L'origine deshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dene-Caucasian_languages
> 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:
> >
> >
>
> >_____________________________________________________________________
> > 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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