--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, rmccalli@... wrote:

>
> Can we see some type of proof of what people are claiming re

Sumerian? Can

> you be more precise as to which Sumerian you're talking about and

which

> time period?
> I would suppose that given that Sumerian was used as a prestige
> cultural-liturgical written language long after it seems to have
> disappeared as a spoken language, then it would have picked up

influences

> from the native languages of those who used wrote it. Since

societies and

> their commodities change, there would have to have been neologisms,

right?

> So, I'd like to see concrete examples and proof for your

speculations

> --given that I know virtually nothing about Sumerian.

All I'm claiming (at the moment) is that it has a well-documented
existence as a real language.

Richard.