I find it interesting that the Puranas of Hinduism and commentaries by some
Hindu spiritual leaders, who were not trained in western-style linguistics,
declare a common origin for the peoples whose languages are often considered
Nostratic.

~Mark DeFillo

> From: ieforum@...
>Subject: Families of Nostratic
>
>The question is the very idea of Nostratic as a common Proto-language
>for a number of families. But what are those families sharing
>Nostratic features?
>
>There are obvious similarities in phonetics and morphology between IE
>and Semitic (particularly after the Glottalic theory was introduced).
>There are also cognates in the vocabulary between IE and Semitic, IE
>& Caucasian, IE & Altaic etc.
>
>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?

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