>I don't shortlist literature based on ethnicity, but to each his own.
Neither do I; but I quite refrain from wasting time on wanna-be
experts who support all kinda proto-chronist theories. As for,
ethnicity, gimme stuff by prof. András Róna-Tas (for instance).
Or by Harmatta (as far as Iranian influences are concerned.)
>If you only read very few writers, you end up short of facts.
This is more a slogan than a criterium. I'd have more to gain
from the writing of a few *good* writers than from readin
whole lotta crap delivered by dubious and bad writers. :)
>I don't know of any linguist who proposes a genetic relationship
>between Yeniseian and Turkic.
Be it or not, I only saw a quite close kinship between modern
Turkey Turkish words and those counterparts in Yeniseian
listed in a number of variants. That was all. I have no idea
whether Yeniseian and Turkish are related languages or not,
or whether Yeniseian and some of the Turks are closer related
genetically.
>God (Tengri), Tengri, Tanrı, Tanrı, TaÅry, Täñre, Täñiri, Teñir, Tangri, Tengri, Tanara, TurÄ/TorÄ
>cf.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor
>Ãunor, Donar, Ãonar, Ãórr
T*N(gr)- versus T*R- + D*N-/T*N- might make sense.
But how does T*N(gr)- fit all those D*** words of the semantic
categories: "light; day; deity; divine"?
>Check the setting just before clicking 'Send'.
>Or click 'Preview' first for control.
I always do that (even 5-10 times and more before sending).
But I only wished to underline that, ironically, just the UTF
doesn't tolerate diacriticals and special letters whenever
posting to yahoogroups. (I know that a better solution would
be to use mailers and the SMTP protocol instead of posting
from the yahoogroup page by means of a browser or another.)
--
as for the Mesopotamia, this essay might be interesting in the
context of a PIE substrate of Sumerian and Akkadian:
Gordon Whittaker (Uni Göttingen), The case for Euphratic, 2008
(in: Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences,
vol 2, no. 3, 2008)