--- In Nostratica@..., "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> I will be looking at roots. I think we've exhausted the issue of
> affixes, but we shall see. I don't think syntactic parallels have
> been mentioned, except for a very few set phrases, such as 'eye of

the

> day' = 'sun'.

Good morning Richard. Top of the morning to you. Have I perhaps
given two examples of syntactic parallels?

> > Is a C2VC4VC3 or C2VC3VC5 word some type of code? Where could I
> find the key?
>
> All over the place. C = consonant, V = vowel. The digits,

implicitly

> subscripted, identify the consonants, so I can say C2VC3 is the

root.

> You may have noticed that I omitted the nasal that pops up in

various

> places.

Any idea why the consonant vowel code was developed and what purpose
it expresses (other than being able to show that all languages have a
similar arrangement of C & V)?

Very truly yours (? another syntactic parallel),

Gerry