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Subject: Re: Celestial Horse statue in Lodz
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 09:49:41 GMT
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On Thu, 03 May 2001 10:08:37 -0400, you wrote:
>The last time I checked (about 5 years ago), an extensive Nostratic vocabulary had already been distilled, and many links established between Nostratic and Amerind languages. I've never understood how a theory of Eurasiatic exclussivity could be maintained, when even an amateur can spot ancient cognates in modern Semitic languages.
The problem with the Nostratic hypothesis is that the simlarities it
cites are so few and so remote that they might be expected to occur by
pure chance. Obviously, the white race must once have had a common
speech; the problematical matter is whether that speech can be
reliably reconstructed.
John (Rohde).
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