Re: Questions about Eskimo-Aleut and Chukchi-Kamchatkan

I read the same thing from the PowerPoint presentation from the nostratic group files, or was it cybalist. His proposal pretty much did the same thing with all the languages in question.

Or was that you?

~DaW~

----- Original Message -----

From: Glen Gordon

To: nostratic@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 7:35 PM

Subject: [nostratic] Questions about Eskimo-Aleut and Chukchi-Kamchatkan

Danny Wier: >Starostin has some reconstructed Chukchi-Kamchatkan roots on his >Tower of >Babel website. Is there a reconstructed Proto-Eskimo-Aleut? According to Bomhard, there isn't but "great progress has been made in reconstructing Proto-Eskimo" (p.80 "Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis" 1996). Unfortunately, the resources at my university library are so pathetic that I can search for virtually any non-IE language and get nothing at all. So, Bomhard uses a Proto-Eskimo (or should we say Proto-Inuit, just to be politically correct? :P) reconstruction. Here's what he says in the above mentioned book, my only book on Nostratic so far :(