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

I have a web document detailing what I think are Bomhard's deficiencies at:

http://geocities.com/proto-language/NostraticDictionary.htm

I do not know Blench. My impression of Bender is negative.


Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Can relationships between languages be determined after
80,000 years?


> 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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