--- In Nostratica@..., "Gerry" <waluk@...> wrote:

> To all,
> From Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia) I have discovered the
> following:
>
> Nostratic is a highly controversial language "super-family" that
> putatively links multiple different language families. As a
> term, "Nostratic" is difficult to pin down, as its proponents are
> unable to agree on the set of language families they believe should
> be included. Some of the proposed matings are:
>
>
> Indo-European, Dravidian, Mongolian, South Caucasian, Tungusic,
> Turkic, Uralic, and perhaps Afro-Asiatic.
> Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Sumerian, Uralic, Altaic, Elamo-
> Dravidian, and Kartvelian.
>
> Joseph H. Greenberg has also proposed the similar Eurasiatic
> Hypothesis, which combines Indo-European, Sumerian, Uralic, Altaic,
> Elamo-Dravidian, Kartvelian, Ainu, Japanese and some eastern

Siberian

> languages to form a supposed macrofamily.
>
> Valery Alexeev (Alekseev) in a series of lectures presented at
> Harvard University states:
> Linguists who defend the Nostratic theory think it existed 10,000 -
> 15,000 y/a. Possibly the first people who spoke Nostratic were the
> Natufians or the first agriculturalists in Iran.
>
> Based on Alexeev's lectures 9 & 10, I have compiled an hypothetical
> construct of the NOstratic Mega FAmily:
>
> - Indo-European
> - Semitic (Cushitic)
> - Kartvelian
> - Darvidian
> - Uralo-Altaic (including Athapaskan)
> - Yukaghirian (connected to Uralic)
> - Euroasiatic
> - Austronesian
> - Ainu (recently connected to Altaic)
> - Kets isolated family
> - Nivkhs isolated family
> - Paleoasiatic/Eskaleut (in the process of being resolved)
>
> http://www.alekseevmanuscript.com
>
> Could the linguists on this list please offer their feedback.
>
> I thank you.
>
> Gerry