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To: Renfield
The Indo-European and Semitic languages are closely related.

Many Caucasions, Hungarians, Finns, Estonians and others speak Uralic-Altaic languages. The heavy hitters in that group are Turkish and Korean.

Caucasion relates to the presumed geographical "origins" of white folk. Indo-European deals with a family of languages which may or may not share Caucasion "origins".

17 posted on 01/24/2005 7:08:05 AM PST by muawiyah (Egypt didn't invent civilization time)
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To: muawiyah

It's a stretch to put Korean into the Uralic-Altaic family. Finnish and Turkish, for example, are agglutinative, while Korean is not.


18 posted on 01/24/2005 9:35:08 AM PST by Renfield (Philosophy chair at the University of Wallamalloo!!)
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To: muawiyah

I wouldn't agree that Indo-European and Semitic are "closely related." Heck, within the Indo-European family there are languages which are only remotely related...and the "Afro-Asiatic" family which includes the Semitic and Hamitic languages has members which are only distantly related to each other. There are some linguists who claim to have found evidence of a relationship between the Indo-European and Semitic families, but I don't think their views have won wide acceptance--the evidence is just too meager because the relationship (if it exists) is so far back in time.


21 posted on 01/24/2005 7:22:03 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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