I have issues against your placements of Japanese and Korean.
Ainu is ***NNNNNNOOOOOOTTTTTT*** Nostratic! Let's all just accept
this and move on! Arrgh.

But I will have to write later...

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>From: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...>
>Reply-To: nostratic@yahoogroups.com
>To: <nostratic@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [nostratic] Proposal of a name for a possible family
>Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 16:55:21 -0500
>
>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)
> S�mi (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 -----
> From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller
> To: nostratic@yahoogroups.com
> 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

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