Re: Austronesian-Nostratic Connections

--- In nostratic@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
> Richard:
> >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?
>
> My views (since he did ask afterall!):
>
> 1) The Semitic-IE connections are overrated and
> their more recent neolithic interactions are
> vastly underrated. The word *septm is quite
> obviously a Semitoid loan, so it disturbs me that
> Bomhard overzealously includes this in his list
> of Nostratic reconstructions.
>

Many of Bomhard's matches have only IE and AfroAsiatic cognates. They
all occur in Møller's books, which he also has in his reference list

>

> Am I more
> Irish or more Swedish? Who cares?!

Definitely Irish! ;-)
But you're probably as Swedish as anyone will be in the future; in
the city of Malmö, the third largest in Sweden, in the age group 0-18
Swedes are outnumbered by second-generation immigrants, mostly from
Muslim countries, a development from zero that has taken less than
forty years. The demographics is changing in the same way as that
I've seen in American cities.

> - gLeN
>

Torsten