Re: Uralic Continuity Theory (was: Meaning of Aryan: now, "white peo

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 53534
Date: 2008-02-17

At 11:09:03 AM on Sunday, February 17, 2008, mkelkar2003
wrote:

[...]

> The UCT has been received in the familiar fashion.

> http://www.geocities.com/isolintu/voodoo.html

> "The model Wiik et. al. proposed on Proto-Uralic and its
> evolution suffered from the problem that it contradicted
> everything we know about language evolution. Languages do
> not mix unless in rather special circumstances, yet
> genetic mixing and the multiple-rooted language family
> trees associated with it were cheerfully adopted by the
> 'innovationist' Uralists."

> The above claim is just false. Languages do mix and could
> have multiple parents. See McMahon and McMahon (2005).pdf
> in the files. The intricate web of boxes indicates genetic
> mixing.

Of a modest sort that has been familiar for a long time.
Your reading of this diagram is about as successful as your
reading of the Ringe tree.

Brian