From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Tue Jul 11 00:21:11 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30113 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2000 07:21:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 11 Jul 2000 07:21:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO argo.bas.bg) (195.96.224.7) by mta1 with SMTP; 11 Jul 2000 07:21:04 -0000 Received: from banmatpc.math.bas.bg (root@banmatpc.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.2]) by argo.bas.bg (8.11.0.Beta1/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-6) with ESMTP id e6B7KxS25037 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:20:59 +0300 Received: from iad.math.bas.bg (iad.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.88]) by banmatpc.math.bas.bg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA26876 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:20:57 +0300 Message-ID: <396ACB15.6403@math.bas.bg> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:21:57 +0300 Reply-To: iad@math.bas.bg Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] aymara once more References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski pycyn@aol.com wrote: > I'm not sure whether Basque is still a totally isolated langauge > (I seem to remember some deep stuff on the edges of the Nostratic > people making a connection with Caucasian) There is the Dené-Caucasian theory, which would have it that Basque, North Caucasian (alias Ibero-Caucasian), Yenisseian, Burushaski, Sinitic (or Sino-Tibetan) and Na-Dené are related. Crucially, the leading Vasconists (Larry Trask et al.) reject the idea of Basque being related to anything at all. > but most people seem to hold that Aymara and Quechua > are as unrelated as two American langauges can be. Well, it is fair to mention that the term `Quechumaran' exists, but perhaps that was never meant to denote anything more than an areal grouping. The general opinion is in fact that the large shared vocabulary (larger than in the case of Spanish and Basque) is due to such factors as borrowing and/or a common substrate. --Ivan