Re: Question about word-initial velar nasal

John Cowan wrote:
> If so, the mediating element with Southeast Asia almost has to be
> Sinitic, despite the disappearance of [N-] over most of the Sinitic
> area.  No other language group is simultaneously in contact with Turkic,
> Tungusic, Tai-Kadai, and Austro-Asiatic.
Nowadays, yes. But what about in the period between the end of the last Ice
Age (say ca. 12-10,000 B.C.E.?) and approx. 5-4000 B.C.E., to which the
modern language families can be more or less dated, and contact can
certainly be assumed??

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