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

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>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.