Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

> How reliable are reconstructions of non-IE families?
> I realize there are 3 or so reconstructions of Afro-Asiatic, all by

respected scholars. But how do they compare with IE reconstruction?

> Also Uralic et al. Do we really have anything truly well elaborated

to compare with yet?

>

Uralic is very well elaborated. There are open issues, of course, but
that's no different from PIE or any other language family. It's my
understanding that Uto-Aztecan and Algonquin are also fairly well
developed.