| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 17, 2003, 17:16 |
> > From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...> > > > The time-depth of Indo-European is only 6000 years, and Austronesian > > > perhaps 10,000. Most mainstream linguists don't think thatrelationships> > > are even determinable when the time-depth gets greater than that.The most respectable guesses I've seen place Nostratic only at circa 18,000 BCE, and even that requires some huge leaps of faith. This site may be of interest and/or amusement value: http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/austric.html#gn
| John Cowan <cowan@...> |