John and Glen,

>
> John:
> >I always feel you don't consider non-linguistic material enough.
> >Chaqu'un a son gout.
>
> Hello? John? This is a _linguistics_ forum. Ici, ton gout n'est
> pas le propre gout.

Hi Glennie:
Climb out of your cave and see the world. Language (linguistics) cannot
operate without a culture which produces it.

> >The split with Nostratic I feel occurred when Kebaran and the
> >Capsian cultures separated sometime between 20,000 and 15,000 BCE.
>
> Maybe. That date isn't too wild.

Dear John,
Do you have a label for pre-Nostratic languages?

Gerry

>
> - gLeN