[Fictionary] Tsimshianic-Tocharian

[David Randall]

Pierre,

If true, this would indicate that Indo-Europeans crossed the Bering Strait
something like 4000-2000 BC; I had thought the last migration across the
Bering Strait was presumed to be at least 9000 BC.  I think this would
change the chronology of migrations to the New World radically.

David

On 2/27/09 9:50 AM, "Pierre Abbat" <phma at phma.optus.nu> wrote:

> There's a linguist named John Dunn who proposes, with a list of cognates, that
> Tsimshianic is a branch of Indo-European. One of those cognates is an
> alga - "dulse", which is from Gaelic, is cognate, he says, to a Tsimshianic
> word for Alaria. On phonological and geographic grounds, its closest kin is
> Tocharian. Do you think this deserves looking into as does Ket-NaDene?
> http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/D/John.A.Dunn-1/text/p1.htm
> 
> Pierre