Re: Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish

Because it creates a false dichotomy between Semitic
and non-Semitic, presupposing that all non-Semitic AA
languages form one branch. Given what we know about
AA, that is misleading at best and comes across as
ignorant


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Early Indo-European loanwords
> preserved in Finnish
>
>
> I found the term Semito-Hamitic telling. By 1970 or
> so, popular encyclopedias such as Funk & Wagnalls
> were
> already using Afro-Asiatic or Afrasian and
> explaining
> how outdated S-H was.
>
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>
> What is supposed to be wrong with
> Semito-Hamitic
> or Chamito-sémitique ?
>
> Personally, I think the "symmetrical"
> Afro-Asiatic from "Indo-European"
> is not better,
> The symmetry crumbles when
> PIE becomes part of CS.
>
> Arnaud
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