Re: ouralique et IE

Actually, it was *t-t-, not *t-r- in the protolanguage, as I have explained before. The -r- results from t-voicing in _some_ daughter languages.

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Subject: [nostratic] Re: ouralique et IE

Yes, them dry bones... There's the Sahara to contend with. As for the "3" *t-r- in Niger-Congo, if you are thinking of that... Piotr tried to reduce it to a Proto-Bantu thing, but obviously it's bigger than that. But it is not omnipresent in Niger-Congo, it occurs in some languages and not in others; and isn't that the situation you'd see if that term were borrowed?