Re: A new Indo-European subfamily in China
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 4, 2000, 6:58 |
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E-Ching Ng wrote:
>> I am in the dark about Sino-Caucasian ... what are the Caucasian
>> languages, and how certain is it that they're related to Sino-Tibetan?
IIRC Sino-Caucasian is an offshoot of Nostratic theory, or maybe
Proto-World, both controversial, some would say loony, attempts to relate
IE, Dravidian, Caucasian, Semitic or whatever, into one grand
Proto-language. There's a little book by one Vitalij Shevoroshkin, and a
big book or two by one Dolgopolsky, if you want to look into it further.
Have a full salt-shaker handy.