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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...> wrote:
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> An impressive list, I see why so many support a fairly close
> relationship between Semitic and Indo-European, only to what extent is
> it borrowing one way or the other?
>
I want to say that correspondences outside of Semitic-Indo-European
correspondences, I have always believed to be mainly coincidences (if
not borrowings), possibly due in part to onomatopoeia producing
similar sound sequences among different peoples in words for the same
objects or phenomena. I am not yet a big supporter of the Nostratic
hypothesis or other pan-Eurasian language theories (acknowledging that
I have read about them chiefly in this forum).
AJ