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Re: basque article

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 11, 1999, 5:51
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, nicole perrin wrote:

> OK, I might make myself look really stupid here, but what the heck. > > http://www.islandnet.com/~edonon/saharan.htm > > This is an article that I just started to read, about the origins of > Basque, Ainu, and Dravidian, and it seems a little bit strange to me, > and I was just wondering, is there any validity to it? So far all the > quotes have been from the Bible, not exactly a reliable linguistic > source, and it seems like the guy who wrote it is making sort of > outrageous claims. Or am I completely wrong, and this is accepted > theory? I guess it can't hurt to ask. > > Nicole >
Basque, Ainu and Dravidian act on crackpots like lemonade acts on wasps, so I'd seriously distrust anything said about those that's not published in an accepted scholarly journal or by an accepted scholarly publisher, and even then... But I'll take a look at it tonight, even if it's just for fun :-). Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt