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

Blench is one of the best known linguists in the
field. He's at Cambridge or Oxford. He specializes in
African languages and proposes a "Niger-Saharan' group
What are the problems with Bender?

--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

> 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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