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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span name="Edwin Alexander"><span class="gD" name="Edwin Alexander">Edwin Alexander</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:edsells@cogeco.ca">edsells@cogeco.ca</a></span> <br>
</span></span>Subject: LL-L "Administrativia" 2012.11.28 (01) [EN-NDS]</font></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">On 28/11/2012 1:28 PM, Ron wrote: </font><blockquote type="cite"><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ed, how about finding another word or two and <strong>then</strong> finding out how linguists react to the proposal that Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and other Algonquian languages are connected with Afro-Asiatic? ;-)</font></div>
</blockquote><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hey, I was just kidding! My assumption is that it is purely coincidental. According to their own legends, the Algonkian peoples inhabited the northeastern coastlands of North America, and moved westward from there. Genetically, they have found evidence of interbreeding of North Americal aborginals with prehistoric peoples of what is the Basque region of Europe. It is theorized that these early explorers from Europe followed the continuous edge of the glaciers 12,000 years ago. I may not have these facts just right, but you can Google it for yourself. In other words, it could just as well be Afro-European.<br>
<br> Ed</font></div></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">----------<br></font></div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="azoy"><span class="gD" name="Mike Morgan">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a></span></span></font><span><br>
</span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: <span> LL-L "Administrativia" 2012.11.28 (01) [EN-NDS]</span></font></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ron,<br><br> as a linguist, you know that there HAVE been much crazier proposals<br> than an Algic-Afro-Asiatic connection... although usually, yes, based<br> on a list longer than 1 cognate (but sometimes with much WORSE<br>
correspondence than the minyan-minik one Ed offers)<br><br> (When I was first in Japan, a score and a half years ago, trying to<br> prove that the Japanese (or at least those Japanese linked with the<br> royal family) were one of the Lost Tribes of Israel was a quite<br>
"popular" topic for books. Or that Japanese was related to<br> Dravidian... of course, most of these august books were written by<br> people whose PhDs were in fields like Civil Engineering or such. ;-)<br><br>
currently on day 4 of the annual Linguistic Society of Nepal<br> conference-PLUS-workshop (2 days-PLUS-2 days), and half the workshop<br> is Scott Delancey with the latest developments in his theories about<br> the Sino-Tibetan [sic] family tree (sorry if the juxtaposition leaves<br>
the wrong conclusion; DeLancey's trheories are VERY convincing<br> linguistically... and historically)<br><br> And, by the way, I find the Anishinaabe minik - English many (< manig)<br> correspondence to be a LOT more convincing ;-)</font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> Ed, how about finding another word or two and *then* finding out how</font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#888888" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">mwm || *U*C> || mike || माईक || мика || マイク (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)<br>
sign language linguist / linguistic typologist<br> academic adviser, Nepal Sign Language Training and Research<br> NDFN, Kathmandu, Nepal</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="azoy"><span class="gD" name="Mike Morgan">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a></span></span></font><span><br>
</span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: <span> LL-L "Administrativia" 2012.11.28 (01) [EN-NDS]</span></font></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">PS should also have expanded the Anishinaabe-Indo-European set... also<br>
need to include on the IE side Slavic m^nogo, Latin magnus (with<br> metathesis) and -- respects to Freud's theory of the antithetical<br> meaning of roots -- Sanskrit manaak "a little", Latin minus, etc<br>
<br> but it being 3;30AM here in Shangrila, I will leave the expansion of<br> the list to others ;-)</font></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#999999">mwm || *U*C> || mike || माईक || мика || マイク (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)<br> sign language linguist / linguistic typologist<br>
academic adviser, Nepal Sign Language Training and Research<br> NDFN, Kathmandu, Nepal</font> </font></div><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> ----------</font></p><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: R. F. Hahn </font><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: Language varieties</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ed, I knew you were kidding. I just tried to yank your chain.</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mike, let me take this full circle by adding that I know a professor who is convinced that Altaic and Dravidian languages are related, and there are those that both Japanese and Korean are related to Altaic on a pre-Altaic stratum ... And, of course, there's someone convinced that Hungarian and Quechua are related.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,<br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</font></div></span><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></span></div>
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