Well, suddenly the Nostratic has gone dead again...

Hmm, was it something I said? :) I have trouble believing
that Altaic came from anywhere other than Central Asia and that
it had been there for some time previous. Actually, I just
remembered that I still have that roughly done map on my site
that was meant to illustrate my ideas on the placement of
postglacial languages of Central Asia c. 8500 BCE.

The link is here:
http://glen_gordon.tripod.com/LANGUAGE/CAsia8500_prelim.gif

The colours are meant to mark three major linguistic groups:
BuruYen in green, SinoDene in yellow and Steppe (aka Bomhard's
Eurasiatic) in red. I've also marked the placement of dialect
areas within the Steppe region. BuruYen and SinoDene are, in
my mind, closely related sister language groups relating back
to 15,000 BCE or so. My thought is that the easterly SinoDene
first cleaved BuruYen in two around 10,000 BCE, followed by an
encroachment from the southwest by the Steppe speaking peoples
up to a thousand years later.

Drawing maps and assigning dates is my way of making sense of
it all and keeping organized in the process. Am I mad? Perhaps.

Bon ap�tit!


- love gLeN




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