Re: Finnish KASKI

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> ***
>
> Jouppe, I think you have not been on the list long enough to know

that I

> refer to PAA (Proto-Afro-Asiatic whenever the connections suggest

its

> usefulness.
>
> There is really nothing "anachronistic" about comparisons between

PIE and

> Semitic or Hieroglyphic Egyptian under the rubric Nostratic.

I used the term "anachronistic" in relation to individual semitic
languages like Arabic and Hebrew. Hebrew barely dates back to the
second millennium BCE whereas PIE is several millennia older. Arabic
is even younger than Hebrew, albeit rather conservative. My whole
point was why not use Proto-Semitic in place of Hebrew and Arabic as
reliable reconstrucions exist. It is still a valid node despite your
attempted older reconstrucinonal levels, isn't it?

Jouppe

> I am working on an essay right now connecting PIE, Sumerian, and
> Hieroglyphic Egyptan with Nama, a KhoiSan language.
>
> You will reject this possibility a priori but I invite you to take

a look

> and try to fairly judge what you see. The essay is under

construction so is

> incomplete but there is enough there to establish the connections I

believe.

>
> http://geocities.com/proto-language/c-NAMA-14.htm
>
> and for Nostratic:
>
> http://geocities.com/proto-language/c-AFRASIAN-3.htm
>
> Try to temporarily belay your prejudgments and look at the material.
>

I don't understand your numerical coding system for Nostratic, but I
will make one additional effort. Any reading aid available?

Jouppe