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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 :(