>But still the number of members of the Nostratic macrofamily does not
>remain stable. First what we should do, to my mind, is to define
>which families are definite relatives. Any opinions?
My scheme remains as follows:
AfroAsiatic
Kartvelian
Eurasiatic
Sumerian
Elamo-Dravidian
Steppe
IndoTyrrhenian
IndoEuropean
Tyrrhenian (Etruscan/Rhaetic/Lemnian)
Boreal
UralicYukaghir
EskAleut
ChukchiKamchatkan
AltaicGilyak
Ainu is definitely not (with a capital "D") related to Nostratic.
- gLeN
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