Re: Nostratic (was Re: Schwebeablaut (was Re: tolkien?))
| From: | Rob Haden <magwich78@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 22, 2003, 2:07 |
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:12:33 -0500, John Cowan <cowan@...>
wrote:
>Garth Wallace scripsit:
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>> I thought the theory of a relationship between Uralic and Altaic had
>> been rejected?
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>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.
Exactly. But that doesn't mean it isn't true. There *are* connections
between Uralic and Altaic languages, and I'm not talking about just vowel
harmony here.
- Rob