The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship

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Walter de Gruyter, 1994 - Foreign Language Study - 932 pages

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Contents

Preface
1
Comparative Phonology of the Nostratic Languages
37
The ProtoIndoEuropean Laryngeals
47
3
56
6
83
13
111
Nostratic Morphology and Syntax John C Kerns
141
Comparative Vocabulary of the Nostratic Languages
191
References
715
Index Verborum
865
Subject Index
927
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