Nostratic

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 54317
Date: 2008-02-29

Nostratic means many things to many people.

At a minimum, most would concur that Nostratic should embrace both PIE and
PAA (or, as Orel & Stolbova term it: Hamito-Semitic).


Alan Bomhard has set up tables of equivalencies among Nostratic, PIE, and
PAA (and others), which I think are wrong in many particulars; and I have
detailed these criticisms at

http://geocities.com/proto-language/NostraticDictionary.htm


I have, I think, corrected these deficiencies by assigning the correct
equivalencies at

http://geocities.com/proto-language/c-AFRASIAN-3_table.htm

where I provide cognates for the Hamito-Semitic (PAA) roots in Orel &
Stolbova (1195) with PIE roots as formulated by Pokorny.


In addition, Hieroglyphic Egyptian and Arabic cognates with PIE are
referenced there though they are in a separate document.


I honestly believe that anyone who looks carefully at these data cannot deny
the probability of Nostratic as an explanation for these correspondences.


I hope those of you that still question or deny the reality of Nostratic
will take the time to look at this document.


Patrick