Re: Verb order in Montreiano

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Ferenc Valoczy wrote:
<snipetty>
> >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.
>
> I know little of Uralic, and almost nothing of Eskimo-Aleut, so I can't say
> much of your hypothesis. However, isn't it more likely that Eskimo-Aleut and
> Uralic together forms a super-family? If they do, I henceforth name it EAU -
> snow (ie water, French "eau") is kind of the thing these people have in
> common!
Hehe, that's amusing =). But yes, I think that might be a better way to
arrange it. I am ever so slowly working on this, so if you want I can keep
you posted...

> On a more serious note, the Yukaghir language of Sakha (aka Yakutia) is
> thought to be related to the Uralic langs. Does it figure in your
> hypothesis?
It does, actually. In the way I've been figuring, the chart would go


Uralic - FU - Finnic
            - Ugric
         Eskimo-Samoyed
            - Samoyedic
            - Eskimo-Aleut
         Yukagir

roughly. I'm also trying to find more about Chukchi, Evenki and the other
Paleosiberian languages; I think they too might possibly fit into this,
but at the moment that's just a wild guess.

The other way we can arrange the chart is how you suggested,

EAU - Uralic
    - Eskimo-Aleut

but, then, the question yet remains, is Yukagir a branch of Uralic as I
have it in the first chart, or of EAU? At the moment I'd lean towards
Uralic, but we'll see.

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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