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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: fix need info on U-A, Elamite, Dravidian, Polinesian, etc Pronouns
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	I read your lists, and while their intent is interesting, I find 
your attempted comparisons rather unsystematic (where are the sound 
correspondences?), and there is no sign of use of comparison work that 
has already been done.

	I'm sure that there is an abundance of stuff on comparative 
Uralic linguistics you can find at some well-stucked university library. 
So unless you enjoy redoing such work, you may want to consult it.

	And you appear to be forgetting Indo-European, which greatly
disappoints me as a speaker of an Indo-European language. :-)

	If you are interested in long-range comparisons, you might try 
the books put together by Vitaly Shevoroshkin on that subject; some of 
them have whole lists of proposed roots.
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