Re: Nostratic (was Re: Schwebeablaut (was Re: tolkien?))

Garth Wallace scripsit:

> I thought the theory of a relationship between Uralic and Altaic had
> been rejected?
It has, but it's never been clear to me just what the compelling negative
evidence was (not like Paul Benedict's work showing that Sinitic and Tai
aren't genetically related).  People just stopped believing it, somehow.

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