Re: Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish

Hamitic, besides not being a valid branch. also
carries secondary derrogative meanings associated with
Ham, the "cursed" son of Noah. In that sense, it comes
across as racist to some.
Indo-Germanic sounds quaint --don't only the Germans
use it?

--- Richard Wordingham <richard@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> > Because it [Semito-Hamitic] 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
>
> The problem here I presume is that we now seem not
> to have a branch
> called Hamitic. In the interests of Anglo-French
> acronymic agreement,
> would English 'Chado-Semitic' (CS) be acceptable?
> Or is
> 'Indo-Germanic' to be disparaged as ignorant?
>
> > --- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Should not Semito-Hamitic-Japhethic then be
> simplified to Nohic?
> (This is not Noahism!) Actually, such a group would
> then meet my
> preferred definition of Nostratic sensu lato - the
> crown clade of the
> original languages of the sacred texts of the people
> of the book.
> (Avestan and Sanskrit can be added to taste - they
> do not change the
> meaning of the term.)
>
> Richard.
>
>

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