Re: Austronesian-Nostratic Connections

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From: Richard Wordingham

To: nostratic@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 3:36 AM

Subject: [nostratic] Austronesian-Nostratic Connections

When gLeN pointed us to a Canadian site on Tagalog, my first though
was that it matched a brief description of Semitic triliteralism far
better than the Semitic languages do!  This confirms that Proto-
Austronesian is a feral Semitic-based con-lang :)

It would be nice to hook up Austronesian and Nostratic, but, although
it might resolve the place of Japanese (Altaic?, Austro-Tai?), I
suspect that is getting rather proto-Worldian.  (The same's been said
of including Afro-Asian in Nostratic.)  What are the feelings of the
long rangers?  I don't think it is favourable - see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nostratic/message/173 and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nostratic/message/674 .

Richard.

 

Please also look at message 675:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nostratic/message/675

I do think we are approaching a proto-World.

 

Gerry

 

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