Glennie writes:
More specifically, at the bottom
of...
http://glen_gordon.tripod.com/LANGUAGE/origin.html
Language
is reeeally old, folks. Can we reconstruct the theoretical Proto-World,
the mother of all human languages? No. Why? Because language doesn't
have a sudden beginning. It's as old as life itself. Even bacteria use
"language", in a manner of speaking. So, there's nothing special about human
language unless we can come up with a far more accurate definition of the
term.
Dear Glennie, what you write above brings a tear to my eye. Yes, language is as old as life itself. Now on your chart above, you place Dene-Asiatic as the lead hypothetical language. Do you have a date for Dene-Asiatic? Guess what? I'll buy your Nostratic at 15,000 BCE (give or take).
BTW, is there a vocabulary associated with Dene-Asiatic?
Gerry