Re: Proto-Uralic?

Quoting Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>:


>     Moving further back in time (and further out on a limb  ;-)  )
> could there have been Human-Neanderthal creoles which have left
> traces in today's langs? Any way to know? (What an interesting
> idea for a conculture! )
I can't see how a such hypothesis could possibly proved, unless one can show
that some feature(s) found in modern languages couldn't be invented by H
sapiens sapiens. Since the feature(s) necessarily must be able to be
transmitted by H sapiens sapiens, that seems very unlikely.

To my knowledge, there is as yet very little evidence of direct contacts
between the two (sub-)species. It has been suggested that some physiological
traits - reddish hair and freckles, inter alia - that are mostly found in
former Neanderthal territory are due to sapiens-neanderthaliensis
interbreeding, but this is a mere guess - I'm not aware of any evidence beyond
the geographical. And as regards language, it's not even known what capacities
the Neanderthals had for this.

                                                                Andreas