Re: Evidence for Nostratic? (was Re: Proto-Uralic?)

Stone Gordonssen scripsit:

> Somewhat like _e_ [@] in the reconstructon of ancient Egyptian? "Gee, we
> can't find one, but there must have been a vowel here somewhere."
Naah.  "e" in Egyptian is nothing but a pronunciation hack, and has no
status in the reconstruction at all.

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