Re: Can relationships between languages be determined after 80,000 y

From: etherman23
Message: 52033
Date: 2008-01-29

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
> It is amazing to me how the connections that I theorized from Arabic
and
> Egyptian are falling into place with Afrasian (Hamito-Semitic).
>
> I often wonder, even with the flawed work of some Nostraticists, how
anyone
> can possibly doubt the genetic relationship between PIE and PA.

Probably because there isn't a decent reconstruction of PAA yet.