[RightWhale]

Eurasiatic super-language family, encompassing Indo-European, Finno-Ugric (Uralic), Altaic (Turkic etc.), Nivkh (Gilyak), Chukchi-Koryak-Kamchadal, Japanese-Korean, and Eskimo-Aleut.

Sounds like an early split between cold-climate groups and warm-climate groups.

[JBBooks]

This research fascinates me. Thanks for the post.

It will be very interesting to see how all of this bears on native american land claim issues if it is proven that they, too, usurped this land.