From: tgpedersen
Message: 58258
Date: 2008-05-01
>Let me guess.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>
> >> However, if Eurasiatic is reconstructed, why would
> >> we need
> >> "Macro-Nostratic"?
> >
> > But Eurasiatic is not reconstructed to the
> > satisfaction of most linguists. We have Greenberg's
> > mass com --which includes Ainu, a languages that is
> > clearly not part of that proposed phylum. We don't
> > have a consensus on its subdivisions or even on what
> > Altaic is or isn't. So there's still a lot of work to do.
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> Ainu is related to Uralic, Chinese, etc
> Cf.
> Vogul nom-t "thought"
> Chinese nian1, nian4 "to think, thought"
> Ainu namu "spirit".
>
> The complete idiocy is to put Indo-European in here,
> in a family made of Asiatic languages.
> So long as a super-family will start with that premice, it's dead-born.
>
> Arnaud
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