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Dr. Aharon DolgopolskyDepartment of Hebrew Stud iesUnivers i ty of HaifaHaifa , I s rae l

November 3 , 198669 High S t r ee tRockpor t ,Massachuset ts 0196cc Porkhomovsky, M il i t a r i av , S t a r o s t i n , Diakonov, Sto lbova , Belova, AihanvaldZhvania and Vetoshkina Call in th e So v ie t Union> Rabin and Goldenberg Sass , Jungra i thmayar , Koahlar , Vossen,Heina, Rot t land , Behrans , Schenkar , Wolfa, St racka r , Moahlig Black , Murtonan, tan Raa :Tr iggar , David, Nursa, Sankoff T r a i l l , Jenk ins , Westphal Rausa, Sraenbarg, A n t t i l a , Watkins , Hodge, Newman, Ste inbeAmbrose, Brovarsk i , Hale , Hudson, Cav a l l i -S fo rza , Bandar, Dyen, Zimansky, BaHetzron, Lawis, Vansina, McCall , Ehre t , Clark , Brandt , Liv ings tona , Mil l a r ,Bennat t , F r i e d r i c h , Kruskal , Chr i s t i anson , Feinhandler , Lounsbury, Sragg, Pia: and, i f poss ib l e , I l ena Swadesh in MeMico.Dear Aaron,

This i s l i ke having a p r iv a t e t e lephone c a l l broadcas t over a publ icaddress system! So I inc luded about 70 f r i ends / co l l eagues in th e conversa t ionAll of them have some i n t e r e s t in what wil l become our

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t h e ~ a ba any doubt .M o ~ a i m p o ~ t a n t l y , in th a n o ~ t h a ~ n ~ a l m s you do NOT inc lude Basque,

E t ~ u s c a n , S u m a ~ i a n , th a old Southwest Asian bunch , n o ~ N o ~ t h Caucan o ~ B u ~ u s h a s k i , Nahal i , Kusunda

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th e naw th ings sprang 4rom th e bra in OT S ta r o s t i n . He shared c re d i t withDiakonov. So what i s NEW? Hera ;oas1

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proposed etymologies a re convincing but most them a ra . The au thors a re mumore l i b e ra l than I would be in accep t ing meta thes i s and sometimes to o l i b e rin semant ics . But th a crux o ~ th a mat ter i s whathar th e ~ a r m and meaningresemblances a re CONVINCING o r na t . Most C i ~ t h a i r s a ra . They inc luded perhapt ~ a many what we would c a l l "cu l tu re wards" in Amarica. Thei r discuss ionsmorphology seemed competent but again I have almost no Nor theas t Caucasic dato compare with t h e i r s . Only a smal l p a r t a ~ th e Diakanov-Starost in recons t ruc t ion i sava i l ab le in th a "Hurro-Urar taan as an Eas tern Caucasic Language ... Thera i sway to judga it and it is impara t iva t h a t it ba publ i shed . Soma th e s t a r r

~ a r m s saam phana t i ca l ly t o r t u ro u s bu t t h i s i s th a famous Kabardian group andits kin . I suspac t t h a t Derek and Derek

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it i ~ to Nost ra t ic . I have thought fo r some t ime now t h a t Afroas i a t i c andKhoisan had a lo t of "chanca 11 resemblances and th e same for Afroas ia t ic andIndo-European. Now my working hypothes i s i s t h a t Nost ra t i c i s p a r t of a evel a rge r "phylum", a l l of whose branches are not known, but which seems to has t rong A f r i c ~ n component. I f t h i s phylum holds up to th e kind of i n t ens iveinqu i ry I th ink we ought to make, then I suspec t it can eas i ly be 2 ~ , 0 0 0 yeo ld . That would be a rea l break- through in Old World preh i s to ry !

But , i f we g e t involved with such a mass ive th ing as Nile-SaharanCongo-Kordofanian, or with th e American Indian s ide of Swadesh 's Vasco-Denethen I reckon t he da t e s would have to be much g r ea t e r , maybe doubled. But mmind r e t r e a t s in disorder from th e empir ica l chores involved in t a s t ing suchypothesis! We a l ready have our hands fu l l t ry ing to recons t ruc tp ro to -Afroas i a t i c , not to mention proto-Khoisan

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Kordofanian, Manda, Bantu, and Niger-Congo in genera l . Hadza, Sandawe, SAK,Khoisan in genera l . Indo-European. Hurrian & Urar tean only . Kartve l ian Afr i can i s t h i s t o r i a n , mathematicip h y s i c i s t , and soc ia l an thropo log is t .

Flaming /}/halom! Hal / Harold C.69 High S t re e tRockport ,Massachuset t sUSA 01966

J u s t as a s t a r t e r fo r th e o ther s , l e t me add here some cruc ia l names andaddresses in Moscow.Alexander Yuri Mil i ta r ievI n s t i t u t e of Orien ta l S tud iesAcademy of Sciences of th e USSRSemashko S t r . 1/12K-9 Moscow, USSRDr. Anna BelovaIns t i t u t e of Oriental S tud ies12, rue Jdanova Moscow 103777, USSRDr. S.A. Sta ros t in & Natala Zhvania ,same address as Anna Belova

Viktor PorkhomovskyI n s t i t u t e of Lingu i s t i c sAcademy of Sciences of USSRSemashko S t r . 1/12K-9 Moscow, USSROlga Stolbova, same addressas Viktor

Alexandra Yu. Aihenvald & TVetoshina , same as ViktorProf . Igor M. DiakonovI n s t i t u t VostokovedeniyaDvorcovaya Nabereznaya 18Leningrad, USSR

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i 7Some e-cymoloc;r1es -tor- a ooss1i:Jle H-f"roeuras1a.n < : : , L p r ; - r - r - t ~ y ..h,f,.,

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