--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "John <jdcroft@...>"
> <jdcroft@...> wrote:
> > Hi Torsten
> >
> > > Bantu(?)
> > > Sandawe korongo "long-horned cattle"
> >
> > I thought Sandawe was a Khoisanid language.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > John
>
> So did I, and you're probably right. That's what the question mark
> was about. The "Bantu" epithet comes from the book I took it from
> which I found on the shelf with Very Odd Books at the linguistics
> library. It also has very odd sets of comparisons. I hope his

sources

> are OK. He doesn't promote any theory of PAn - African connection,

so

> at least he's not biased in that direction.

The book is Roman Stopa: Structure of Bushman and its traces in Indo-
European. Some samples:
Part I.6. "A list of 23 calls ("words") of chimpanzee with similar
words of Bushman".

They don't make books like that anymore.

>
> But BTW whenever I find an article on unusual comparisons, it seems
> for some reason *k-r- "turn, round, circle, sphere, head" and *k-r-

n-

> "horn" are there, whatever the reason is.
>

Shevoroshkin (ed.)
Nostratic, Dene-Caucasian, Austric and Amerind


Orël & Stolbova:
Cushitic, Chadic and Egyptian: Lexical relations
Galla-Somali *garr-, Omotic *k'aR-, Egyptian k'r,ty "horn"

John Bengtson
Ainu kirau, Proto-Miao-Yao *klo(n,) ~ *kyo(n,) "horn"

Aikhenvald-Angenot & Angenot
The South-American Proto-Ge and the old world
6. Proto-Nostratic *koyHV (PIE, PU), Proto-Ge *k& "bark, skin", Prot-
Uto-Aztec *ko "skin"
10. Proto-Nostratic K.ErV "head, horn" (PAA, PIE, PU, PK), Proto-Sino-
Caucasian *qwVrHV "head, horn"; Proto-Mon-Khmer *kVy "head, horn",
Proto-Ge *krã(,n) "head, horn"

> Torsten