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From: Danny Wier

To: nostratic@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 9:37 PM

Subject: Re: [nostratic] BOMHARD'S "RESPONSE"

What other Nostratic list?  Isn't this list the Nostratic list...

Also, you said Bomhard had a six vowel system when he actually has three phonemic vowels (six reflecting pairs of allophones for each), which you also have, so why did you criticize him for his vowels?

 

[PCR]

First, there is another Nostratic list at

 

Nostratic@...

 

Second, Bomhard uses the allophones of his primary trio to create more vocalic correspondences in the daughter languages, than are, in my opinion, unjustified.

 

For example, Bomhard asserts that his Nostratic *a is seen in Dravidian *a; the allophone, Nostratic *6 in Dravidian *e. This means that any given root in Nostratic *a has two chances at a cognate in Dravidian: one in *a and one in *e. This hopelessly muddles the roots.

 

If you will go through all the roots I have reconstructed for Nostratic in *CaC, you will see that there is no necessity to have two Dravidian responses: *CaC suffices to cover all legitimate cognates.

 

 

Pat

 

 

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