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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: California Indian Languages Ugric ?
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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 03:10:30 GMT
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In article <hubey.838317547@pegasus.montclair.edu>,
H. M. Hubey <hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu> wrote:

>I recently heard that the California Indian languages
>have been "proven" to be Ugric. Does anyone have a 
>reference to any articles pertaining to this?

	I'd be surprised about that, because, if nothing else, the
divergence time is about 30,000 years or so, and it's doubtful that the
Hokan and Penutian families would be much closer to Uralic than to (say)
Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan or Afro-Asiatic. 
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