Re: Buru Yen

Could be that Glen has no answers.

Gerry

--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Ben McGarr" <benmcgarr@...>
wrote:

> Hello all,
> Forgive an amateur bystander, but I've been casting a wondering eye
> over the working hypotheses [maps and all] of our fellow member

Glen

> Gordon, and I would be happy if he could explaing a little as to

what

> drove him to make a claim of genetical relationship for this
> particular supposed group of the possible Dene Caucasion mass? Of
> all teh connections he proposes, this one seems to me the more
> remarkable, that a Siberian group [which may or may not have
> anthropological western/Uralic affinities] should be lumped with a
> Himalayan isolate in this way. How much lexical detail has

survived

> from the submerged Altai varieties of Ket, to be added to this
> equation? Is there any decent material on the web about

Burushaski?

>
> Maybe while I'm at it I should ask why Glen changed his mind about
> the affinities of Hattic - is it NWC or NEC? Why does the

otherwise

> fully Balkan Vinca culture have to be dragged into this evicted
> Former Pontic scenario? Why has the Hellenic peninsula so
> drastically changed signifying colour from purple to dark blue on
> your map?!
>
> Questions, questions, questions! Please give me at least half an
> answer ;o))
> Ben