>So if someone should prove that Etruscan, Sumerian, Luwian, even
>Basque are related to Nostratic, it would increase the time depth of
>the family and be an impressive scientific achievement, but it would
>not really bring us closer to an ultimate ancestor --- all the
>languages are still from the same small area.
Picky Quibble:
Surely Luwian is uncontroversially Indo-European? Perhaps you meant
"Hurrian"?
Ed
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