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Re: Verb order in Montreiano

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 21:26
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote: > > Forgive me ignorance; what's the Amerind hypothesis? I do recall some > > discussion of some flaky hypothesis? that Amerind languages? were > > related? to something in Europe maybe? but I don't remember details or if > > it is what you're talking about here. > > Basically, that virtually every language in North and South America, > with the exception of the Eskimo-Aleut family and the Na-Dene family, > are part of a huge family. >
Now you will all think I'm off my rocker, but here's my theory: Eskimo-Aleut are Uralic. I've done lots of work with Samoyedic languages (but little with Eskimo-Aleut), and from what I have seen, I think at least it's plausible. -------ferko Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Suurt chugunikka peene ahjo suhe et toukka. Virtual Votia - Vaddjamaa Internetaza: http://www.geocities.com/uralica railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ 25kV 50Hz: http://www.mp3.com/25kV50Hz