From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 59938
Date: 2008-09-05
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
>> ============
>>
>> This exercice also shows the vanity of the statistical argument
>> used by some people.
>> Clearly, it's __not__ difficult to find a huge number of look-alike
>> words.
>> It just proves nothing.
>>
>> I suppose it would not be possible to create clean correspondances
>> with this breton-slovenian list.
>
> How does that point of view reflect on your efforts to find
> correspondences between Germanic and Siberian languages?
> Torsten
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Interesting question.
I have started writing an article about Yeniseian.
I hope it will be published !
Now, Yeniseian does not have PIE look-alikes
otherwise it would already be recognized as Indo-European.
The next point is there are clean correspondences.
Actually, I used to think there were only two sets of velars in PIE.
I changed my mind : on account of Yeniseian, three are needed.
*g *g^ and *gw.
So I m now siding for three sets not two.
Words in Yeniseian with odd or irregular correspondences are Uralic,
most often Samoyedic and Yenets to be even more precise.
This is the first nail in the coffin of the absurd
Na-Dene-Basco-Vasco-caucaso- machin bidule truc muche.
Arnaud