Numbers as "Core Vocabulary" (was IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic ...

JoatSimeon at aol.com JoatSimeon at aol.com
Thu Feb 10 04:25:17 UTC 2000


>mclasutt at brigham.net writes:

>Numbers are one of the very WORST things to look at in order to make even a
>preliminary decision about relationship.

-- they work fine with the Indo-European languages; in fact, they were
crucial to the discovery of the IE family itself.  They work fairly well with
Semitic, too.



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