Something like that. Another grouping
based on Bomhard with some of my own ideas:
Afro-Asiatic
North
(Hamito-Semitic)
Semitic
Egyptian
Berber
South (Cushito-Chadic)
Cushitic
Omotic
Chadic
Kartvelian (aka South Caucasian: Georgian,
Mingrelian, Svan and Laz)
Elamite-Dravidian
Elamite
Indus Valley
North D. (inc.
Brahui)
Central D.
South-Central D. (inc.
Telugu)
South D. (inc. Tamil,
Malayalam, Kannada)
Sumerian (possibly closer to
Elamite-Dravidian)
Eurasiatic
Indo-European
Anatolian (Hittite
and Luwian)
European
Centum
Celtic
Italic
Greek
Germanic
Tocharian
European Satem
Baltic
Slavonic
Albanian
Armenian
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
Indic (or
Indo-Aryan)
Uralic-Yukaghir
Finno-Ugric
Finnic
(Finnish, Estonian, Karelian etc.)
Ugric
(Hungarian, Ostyak, Mansi)
Sámi
(or Lappish)
Samoyed (Nenets,
Ngagasan etc.)
Yukaghir
Altaic
Turkic
Mongolian
Tungusic
"Boreanesian" (possibly closer to
Altaic)
Japanese-Ryukyuan
Korean
Gilyak
(Nivkh)
? Ainu
"Arctic" or
"Sibero-American"
Chukchi-Kamchatkan
Chukchi
(inc. Koryak-Kerek-Alyutor)
Kamchadal (or Itelmen)
Eskimo-Aleut
Yupik
(Alaskan and Siberian)
Inuktitut (inc.
Greenlandic)
Aleut
Remember, the Boreanesian and Arctic
proposals are my own speculation. The former is mainly a lumping together
of "leftovers" more or less linked with Altaic or whatever.
In the past, I had divided Nostratic into
West Nostratic (AA, IE, Kart.) and East Nostratic (Ural., Alt., Drav.), but that
would break up Eurasiatic, which has a strong case as it has been proposed by
both Greenberg and Bomhard.
Note that I see language classification not
as family trees, but as radiating lines from a common origin, a lot like a crack
in a windshield.
~DaW~
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, 22 September, 2001
12:44
Subject: Re: [nostratic] Proposal of a
name for a possible family
Sounds impressive. Does this now imply a
Nostratic Mega Family has been determined? V. Alekseev based on
Illich-Svityh proposed:
Nostratic Mega Family
- Indo-European
- Semitic
-Kartvelian
-Dravidian
-Uralo-Altaic
-Yuhaghirian
-Semitic (Cushitic)
Gerry