Glen

I cannot access the image of the map you have suggested. Can you
check it out for me? Or better still, post it to the files?

Regards

John

--- In nostratic@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:
>
> 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 apétit!
>
>
> - love gLeN
>
>
>
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