Gerry:

>Arutiunov claims the Ainu have recently been
>connected to Altaic.

Only in a human genome sense. Ainu is definitely not Altaic. The
Ainu people however appear to derive genetically from the peoples
of the mainland to the west.

My personal view is that a large group of languages resided on
the mainland west of Japan and east of the SinoDene homeland,
during the big glacial melt c.9000 BCE. Ainu and Austronesian both
would derive from this group, with Ainu ending up in Japan and the
rest of the group being pushed south and eventually onto the other
islands. Just a tantalizing thought, anyways.

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>Gerry
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
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>Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 11:34 PM
>Subject: Re: [nostratic] Proposal of a name for a possible family
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> > 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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