Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

From: etherman23
Message: 61670
Date: 2008-11-16

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
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> >> 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.
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> As i have pointed at before,
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/55999
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> Proto-Uralic reconstruction is bad.

Come on over to http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/uralica/ so that we
can discuss this in the proper forum.