From: Torsten
Message: 66543
Date: 2010-09-06
>That seems to me too to be the most convincing theory, but as I said, AFAIK he proprosed that tengri in Turkic was a loan from Yeniseian, not part of some common heritage.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@> wrote:
>
> > Yeniseian definitely looks non-Nostratic compared to everything
> > around it. I don't see the "trademark" *mi-*ti/*bi-*ti. What am I
> > missing? I definitely don't want to diss Stefan, but why does he
> > see it as Eurasian? Or is he just signaling its location?
>
> Stefan Georg's view is very much a minority view. The more widely
> accepted view is that it is related to the Na-Dene languages, with
> some suggestions that it might even be Na-Dene proper.