... Not to speak of the fact that Arabic expansions are well-documented historically -- in fact, they can be traced in great geographical and chronological...
... the ... I said "most" Euro languages, including and esp. those which, unlike Italian and Spanish, did *not* border on the Arabic speech area, such as...
... the ... In this case, *all* comparisons must necessarily be anachronistic. IE expansion is a pretty exceptional case. We know it took place, recently...
***HOW TO BEHAVE ON CYBALIST*** Moderatorial Recommendations and Rules of Proper Conduct The purpose of Cybalist is to popularise Indo-European studies and to...
cybalist@yahoogroups....
May 1, 2008 1:54 pm
58247
... From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...> ... ========= Ainu is related to Uralic, Chinese, etc Cf. Vogul nom-t "thought" Chinese nian1, nian4 "to...
... From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...> ... ========= With all due respect for hard work, There is much to criticize and reject. Arnaud ... ======= ...
... From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...> ... A set of proto-phonemes with consistent and plausible sound changes explaining say 500 words could do the...
... From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> ... =========== I have uploaded a file : Germanic Loanwords.ppt that explains my scenario for proto-Germanic ...
Opinion and faith are one thing, facts supporting a conceptual framework are another. The framework has even been created yet and the facts to support such a ...
Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote: Forgot to say, "Rick McCallister wrote:" Opinion and faith are one thing, facts supporting a conceptual framework...
... Ainu has many loanwords from Nivkh, Japanese and probably Tungusic. So beware of that. Paul Sidwell made the case that it's related to (I believe) ...
... From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...> ... I don't think &h can be a phoneme of PIE and I don't think tl > k makes sense. So it's not done. Arnaud...
... Yes I believe all languages ultimately do go back to Africa but, as I say, that's part of my belief in the unity of mankind and not something I have the ...
... Perhaps by virtue of the fact that Europe is connected to Asia. ... Your bigotry is showing again. (And even as sarcasm it's a remarkably silly statement,...
Language families existing in BOTH Europe and Asia. WOW, imagine the possibilities: Indo-European, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, even Afro-Asiatic (if you count ...
The point is that Nostratics needs more than just Bomhard and Starostin. It needs a bigger infrastructure, more people following up what Bomhard and the Moscow...
... wrote: [> Patrick Ryan wrote: - RW.] ... So Trubetzkoy's notion that NE Caucasian *tL could become /k/, /c/ or /q/ is mistaken? For clusters, tl > kl > k...
Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote: - Yes I believe all languages ultimately do go back to Africa but, as I say, that's part of my belief in the ...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
