Re: Verb order in Montreiano

Marcus Smith wrote:
>>I've got a map that confidently tell me they're both Ural-Altaic ... but
>>they this for what it's worth, since the same map tells me Iraq is
>>IE-speaking ...
>
>The Kurds in Iraq speak an IE language.
Yes, I know, but Arabic is the official and the majority language, and on a
map that only used on colour (=language group) per country Iraq should
clearly been marked as Semitic.
>
>>Ok, the later is a misprint, but some think that Japanese and Korean are
>>related to Altaic (I don't know whether this is a majority opinion),
>
>Merritt Ruhlen is a linguist notorious for lumping languages together on
>the sketchiest evidence -- he is a proponant of the Amerind hypothesis.
>(Enough said.) But even he has decided that the evidence for connecting
>Japanese-Korean-Ainu with Altaic is not good enough to accept.
>
>I don't know what that's worth, given how little credit I give him on other
>judgement calls, but I do find it a good indicator of how good the evidence
>is.
OK, I'm not surprised as I've really only seen the theory, apart from that
map, in statements like "some would group Japanese-Korean-Ainu with the
Altaic languages".

Hm, could anyone tell me some of this "Amerind Hypothesis"? All I know of it
is that I was once attacked for adhering to it, while my only mistake was
following the example of a history book from school in using "Amerind
peoples" as a catch-all term to include Red Indians, Eskimoes and Aleutians
...

                                                        Andreas
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