<div dir="ltr">In my comparison of Haida and Proto-Miwok, I compare a form meaning 'liver' to another form meaning 'liver', a form meaning 'bone' to another form meaning 'bone', 'my' to 'I', 'black' to 'black', 'night' to 'night', 'one' to 'one', etc. Also, all of the forms I compare have closely matching initial and final consonants.<div>
<br></div><div>In your comparison of Uralic and Costanoan, you compare a form meaning 'water' to a form meaning 'to spit', a form meaning 'to eat' to a form meaning 'soup', a form meaning 'tongue' to a form meaning 'taste, smell', a form meaning 'cloud' to a form meaning 'dew', a form meaning 'green' to a form meaning 'yellow', and so on. You also compare forms with such discrepant consonants as <i>sai </i>and <i>ange</i>, <i>lawan </i>and <i>njeHl</i>, <i>qapam </i>and <i>kadwa</i>, <i>lalak </i>and <i>kark</i>, and so on.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would rather have a dozen solid comparisons than 100 shaky comparisons.</div><div><br></div><div>Geoffrey Caveney</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Arnaud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fournet.arnaud@wanadoo.fr" target="_blank">fournet.arnaud@wanadoo.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Le 25/07/2013 13:00, Ryan Denzer-King a écrit :<div class="im"><br>
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The evidence I am finding shows substantially more comparisons between Haida and Miwok than between Haida and Costanoan. My tentative hypothesis right now is that, surprisingly, Miwok and Haida are even more closely related than Miwok and Costanoan are.<br>
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Please read this recent paper of mine:<br>
<a href="http://english.fullerton.edu/publications/cln/clncurrentissue/Fournet_UralicCostanoan.pdf" target="_blank">http://english.fullerton.edu/<u></u>publications/cln/<u></u>clncurrentissue/Fournet_<u></u>UralicCostanoan.pdf</a><br>
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