2,650+ SIMILAR IRISH & FINNISH WORDS on Web Page

Tue Apr 27 05:27:31 UTC 1999

Dear Anthony and IEists:

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From: Anthony Appleyard <Anthony.Appleyard at umist.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 2:09 AM

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>   (2) What work has been done on the statistics of the likely proportion
> of accidental resemblances between words in any two completely unrelated
> languages?

Those who are interested in this aspect of Nostratic might enjoy reading:
_Nostratic - Sifting the Evidence_, ed. Joseph C. Salmons andd Brian D,
Joseph, 1998, John Benjamins (so you know it will be overpriced), in which
Donald Ringe has _A Probabilistic Evaluation of Indo-Euralic, and
especially, Response to Oswalt and Ringe by William H. Baxter.

Our friend Alexis Manaster-Ramer has a nice co-authored article on Exploring
the Nostratic Hypothesis in it also.

Pat

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