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

His article has evidently been taken down. What is the
current estimate?

--- jouppe <jouppe@...> wrote:

> I am surprised this Paleolithic Ural continuity
> stuff is still
> discussed out here. Somewhere on cybalist I read a
> claim that it
> would have gained ground 'in all uralic speaking
> countries' (can't
> find that quote now).
>
> As for Finland nobody as I am aware of seriously
> discusses this any
> more, at least not among linguists. It was som 5
> years ago that this
> was a hot subject. Petri Kallio has now on the
> contrary made a good
> case for bringing Proto-Uralic slightly closer to
> present by one
> millenium or so,
>

http://www.kotikielenseura.fi/virittaja/hakemistot/jutut/kallio1_2006.

> html based mainly on Indo-Aryan loanword evidence.
>
> It is really useless 'Noahism' to speculate what
> languages were
> spoken 10.000 years ago.
>
> Jouppe
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003"
> <swatimkelkar@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com,
> "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > [I'm allowing this through as a discussion of
> the Uralic
> Continuity
> > Theory', not as a discussion of AIT/OIT, which has
> been reclosed.
> > I've therefore taken the liberty of changing the
> subject title. -
> > Richard.]
> >
> >
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_Continuity_Theory

> >
> > "The theory questions the validity of the
> chronology for the many
> > Uralic loanwords from the contiguous Indo-European
> and Turkic
> languages."
> >
> > M. Kelkar
> >
>
>
>

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