--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Howey
<andyandmae_howey@...> wrote:

>
> Hello:
> I am typically just a lurker on this list, but I just wanted point

out that out that Tamil is a Dravidian language, not Indic or Indo-
Aryan or whatever the preferred term is. I don't know how that
affects the statement below regarding the "desired" (for lack of a
better term) relationship between Tamil and Basque.

> Andy Howey

Dravidian is generally considered to be Nostratic. If you and your
browser have the patience, there is a review of the term 'Nostratic'
at the end of the Long Ranger no. 31 -
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/MT-31.htm . It's been
suggested that Sumerian, Elamite and Dravidian form a group within
Nostratic, but I'm not sure how well that view is supported now that
the Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis has fallen out of favour. FWIW, gLeN
doesn't support the sub-grouping at
http://glen_gordon.tripod.com/LANGUAGE/NOSTRATIC/nostratic.html .