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

Can you speak to the deficiencies of Ehret, Bender et
al.?
Perhaps it might be better to do this on Nostratic-L
I've read Blench's views but my knowledge of AA is
very limited

--- etherman23 <etherman23@...> wrote:

> --- 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.
>
>

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