Re: Similarities in Caucasian languages to Indo-European

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "afyangh" <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

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> Arnaud
> I have already stated that North Caucasian was part of PIE.
> Words : five, two.
> Look at word "woman" : qwen
> Do you recognize something familiar ?
> Keep on, guys !
> How many "borrowings" do you need until they become cognates ?

As a rule of thumb I'd say five examples for each proposed phonetic
correspondence. We'd also have to pay special attention to the basic
lexicon and grammar. In fact grammatical correspondences are better
than lexical correspondences. If you'd like to continue this line of
discussion come over to one of the Nostratic groups where it is more
on-topic.