tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post7244474536733872707..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Eurasiatic and Nostratic: No Real Updates.Assistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-2703800210538975302019-09-12T22:17:08.551-04:002019-09-12T22:17:08.551-04:00Part of the difficulty is that it is likely to hav...Part of the difficulty is that it is likely to have a web quality as much as a tree quality, in that things that split off may not stay split off, but reconnect a hundred or a thousand years later. There's a lot of movement worldwide.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-58175758025715644192019-09-12T07:52:15.088-04:002019-09-12T07:52:15.088-04:00There must be a phylogenetic tree of languages, bu...There must be a phylogenetic tree of languages, but reconstructing it might be impossible.sykes.1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10954672321945289871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-72397712390412262942019-09-11T21:53:30.306-04:002019-09-11T21:53:30.306-04:00The proto-languages are speculative reconstruction...The proto-languages are speculative reconstructions. You can sort-of see what they stand on. The ur-proto-languages are reconstructions based on reconstructions. Reading the wikipedia articles left me thinking of Wiley Coyote standing bemused as the dust clouds slowly dissipated around him.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com