Re: Proposal of a name for a possible family

You mentioned that on [tied], and I like that name. And you link Altaic and Gilyak. Do you include Korean and Japanese with Altaic? And Indo-Tyrrhenian implies Indo-European and Etruscan I reckon.

Also, if you're gonna use a Russian geographical term, we could use "Proto-Tundra" for Chuk-Kam-Esk-Aleut and "Proto-Taiga" for Uralic-Yukaghir....

~DaW~

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From: Glen Gordon

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Sent: Saturday, 22 September, 2001 22:50

Subject: Re: [nostratic] Proposal of a name for a possible family

Danny Wier: > P.S. I need a name for a unified Chukchi-Kamchatkan and Eskimo->Aleut >grouping. Sibero-American? I already have my own name, "Proto-Boreal", but this includes UralicYukaghir as well. It would be a subbranch, together with AltaicGilyak and IndoTyrrhenian, of the "Proto-Steppe" grouping (Bomhard's "Eurasiatic").