Review Apua5

[De Reuse, Willem]

Hi Mr. Fournet:

Thanks for your review of Apua5 and observations.  It might be a good idea to restrict discussion on this list to the DY proposal.  I think discussing Uralic-NaDene similarities or Nostratic-NaDene similarities will take us too far into speculation, as there is no way to present the necessary evidence on a list like this.

One observation on the below:
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In all cases it would appear that Na-Dene is only present in the upper North-Western corner
of the Americas because it came from much farther west in Siberia than other
Amerindian groups, which seem to be from Eastern and Coastal Siberia (kind
of macro-Tungusic / macro-Altaic).
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Actually, geographical distance does not tell us much about historical relationships.  Remember Algic: Wiyot and Yurok are very far from the Proto-Algonquian homeland, and against all expectations Algonquian, Wiyot, and Yurok are related.  Also, Na-Dene is not only present in the NW corner of the Americas, but also in the American southwest.  Chukotan and Eskimo-Aleut have probably been geographically contiguous for some time, but I am far from convinced that there is a genetic relationship between those two families. The interesting thing about the DY genetic hypothesis is that it looks more promising than the Chukotan-Eskimo-Aleut hypothesis, notwithstanding the enormous geographical distance.

Best,

Willem de Reuse