Re: [NATLANG] Q Re: The Finno-Celtic Conspiracy

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:18:57 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
wrote:

> Quoting David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...>:
>
>> http://hometown.aol.com/irishWord/irish-finn3.htm
>>
> Apart from noting that this is so obviously misguided that even I can
> tell it,
> it's worth noting that according to the Nostratic hypothesis, Irish and
> Finnish ARE related. This would be demonstrated by comparing
> reconstructed PIE and Proto-Uralic, of course.
Of course, to prove a direct Irish/Finnish connection, you would also
first have to prove that Finnish was not Uralic (or that Irish is not IE),
and I don't think there's a case that could be convincingly made there in
either case.




Paul

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