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Odin2005

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11. I don't think it is spurious.

Reply to Igel (Reply #10)

Sun Aug 26, 2012, 01:45 PM

Aug 2012

It's not just some random features taken and ran with by crackpots, these are strong morphological cognates. I have no use for the Nostratic nonsense, but IMO IE and Uralic are certainly related.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Uralic_languages#Some_possible_cognates

A few is a coincidence, that many is a pattern.

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Not this shit again, glottochronology is bunk. PIE was spoken in Ukraine, period. Odin2005 Aug 2012 #9

Some of the "evidence" is probably spurious. Igel Aug 2012 #10

I don't think it is spurious. Odin2005 Aug 2012 #11