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From: meus0001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (William E Meuse)
Subject: Re: My List of Indo-European and Nostratic References [LONG!]
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Loren Petrich (petrich@netcom.com) wrote:
: Kurgan hypothesis, according to which PIE was spread by horsemen going
: Diamond, Jared "Of Horses and Hittites" in _The Third Chimpanzee_. --
: of the horse. -- A posthumous dental exam on a horse in an early
: Kurgan site at Dereivka ca. 4000 BCE revealed that it had had a metal
: bit in its mouth, indicating that it had been ridden.

  Since there are no longer any Marxist-Leninist countries in the world  
  today (Oh - except for Tajikistan and Yugoslavia) what good does it do 
  anymore to fabricate this fanciful stuff? It wasn't done from the 
  standpoint of faith in any recognised tradition other than Darwin & 
  Marx, both of whom have been thoroughly discredited. 

: their worship of a god named "Father Sky". Different editions vary a
: "Teach Yourself Proto-Indo-European" (title inspired by the numerous
: vocabulary. Some words, like "lightning", tend to suffer numerous
: homogeneous language. It may have been more like a continuum of
: dialects, where innovations can spread in waves (compare the early

  Well, you may be on the right track here. But just to show the other 
  side of the story, I have taken the liberty of translating your 
  prehistoric languages that were never spoken and exist solely for 
  propaganda purposes into the eternal King of Languages:

 : Owis Ek'wooskwe BEGINNA FERESOTCH
 
: Gwrreei owis, kwesyo wl@naa ne eest, ek'woons espeket, oinom ghe
: gwrrum woghom weghontm, oinomkwe megam bhorom, oinomkwe ghmmenm ooku
: bherontm. BEKWOREBTA, SUF YELIELE BEG FERESOTCHIN,'AND KEBBAD GAREE 
  SIBO, 'AND TILIQ SHEKIM TESHEKMO, 'ANDIMM SEWIN TESHEKMO, 'AYYATCHEW.  
: Owis nu ek'womos ewewkwet: "Keer aghnutoi moi ek'woons agontm nerm
: widntei". BEG LEFERESOTCH - SEW FERESOTCHIN NEDTO BEMAYAT LIBBIE 
  'AMMONYAL 'ALE.
: Ek'woos tu ewewkwont: "Kludhi, owei, keer ghe aghnutoi nsmei widntmos:
: neer, potis, owioom r wl@naam sebhi gwhermom westrom kwrnneuti. Neghi
: owioom wl@naa esti". FERESOTCH - SIMA, BEG; SEW, GIETA, YEBEG SUF 
  INDE MUQ LIBS LERASU 'ADRIGO BEMAYAT LIBBATCHIN 'AMMONAL. BEGIMM SUF 
  YELEWIMM 'ALU. Tod 
  kekluwoos owis agrom ebhuget. YIHIN SEMTO BEG WODE MIEDA SHESSHE. 

: Sheep and Horses BEGINNA FERESOTCH
: On hill, sheep that had no wool saw horses, one 
: pulling heavy wagon, one carrying big load, and one carrying
: man quickly. BEKWOREBTA, SUF YELIELE BEG FERESOTCHIN, 'ANDIN 
  KEBBAD GAREE SIBO, 'ANDIN TILIQ SHEKIM TESHEKMO, ANDIMM SEWIN TOLO 
  TESHEKMO, 'AYYATCHEW.  
  sheep said to horses: "heart pains me, seeing man driving horses".
  BEG LEFERESOTCH - SEW FERESOTCHIN NEDTO BEMAYAT LIBBIE 'AMMONYAL
  'ALE. horses said: "Listen, sheep, our hearts pain us when we see
: man, master, makes wool of sheep into
: warm garment for himself. FERESOTCH - SIMA, BEG; SEW, GIETA, YEBEG SUF 
  INDE MUQ LIBS LERASU 'ADRIGO BEMAYAT LIBBATCHIN 'AMMONAL. And sheep 
  has no wool". BEGIMM SUF YELEWIMM 'ALU. Having heard this, sheep fled 
  into plain. YIHIN SEMTO, BEG WODE MIEDA SHESSHE.
: [Here, @ = schwa, the "uh" sound, usually represented by an
: * Afro-Asiatic 
: 	Semitic
: 	Egyptian 
: 	Berber
: 	Cushitic
: * Dravidian (with Elamite) You're right on that one.
: NOTE: Afro-Asiatic could well be a group comparable to the rest of
  Nostratic and to Sino-Caucasian, as some Nose-racists have
: 	NE Caucasian (incl. Hurrian-Urartian and Etruscan)
: 	Abkhazo-Adyghian (incl. Hattic)
: * Sumerian
: * "Pelasgian" [pre-IE in Greece]
: an assortment of enthusiasts and crackpots, and some Nostraticists
: Phrygian
: Hebrew
: Arabic
: Africa" hypothesis both suggest that humanity originated in some
: homogeneous or nearly so. Thus, one can conclude that Proto-World
: around 100,000 -- 200,000 years ago, and most mainstream linguists
: 	Here is a poem in reconstructed Nostratic composed by the late
  LISAN                 YEGEEZIE        YEWOHA          MELKA   
: K'elHa"		wet'e-i		`aK'u-n		ka"hla
: Tongue		time-of		water-of	path/ford
 
  YEWOTTHA              WODE BIET       'INYAN          YIMERAL
: k'ala-i		palhV-k'V	na		wete
: gone-of		dwelling-to	us		lead(s)

  'IRSU GIN             WODEZZEEYA      YIMETTHAL       'AYDELLEM 
: s'a da		'a-k'V		'ejV		'a"la"
: he but		there-to	come(s)		no(t)

  YEMM             EEFERA             THILQ          WOHAN
: ja-k'o		pele		t'uba		wete
: which-who	fear(s)		deep		water

: Language is a ford through the river of time
: It leads us to the dwelling of the ancestors
: But he does not arrive there
: Who is afraid of deep water

  LISAN BEGEEZIE WONZ WISTH YALE MELKA NEW. WODE WOLADJOTCHU BIET 
  YIMERANAL, THILQ WOHAN YEMMEEFERA GIN 'AYDERSIMM.

: Note: V is an uncertain vowel, K is k/q, a" is a with " on top, and s'
: is s with ' on top. The ' after a stop consonant (t, k, etc.) denotes
: a glottalized consonant (with a stricture in the throat).
: Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster 
  Ras William I, actually Stevie Wonder in cognito
