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In article <Jan.4.14.40.42.1993.18485@pilot.njin.net>, hubey@pilot (Hubey) writes:
>In article <1993Jan4.032130.12753@trl.oz.au> jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy) writes:
>> Off-hand, I can't think of cases of a regular change of
>> sh into l, or of z into r. Could it be that it is Chuvash
>> that has been the conservative one, phonologically?
>
>It's quite possible.
>
>Of course, if we use the same methodology as used for finding the homeland of
>the IE languages, then the Turkic languuage homeland moves northwest from
>Altay region towards the Ural-Siberian region. That puts it towards the Uralic
>homeland, doesn`t it?

Which methodology?  The Indo-European homeland has moved from Central Asia to
Scandinavia and back, depending on current anthropological knowledge and racial
and political fads, for the last 200 years.

Are you talking about Gimbutas' work?  Or the beech/salmon/turtle stuff?  Or
the "ex Oriente lux" of the pioneers?
-- 
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                such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
                                                        --J. R. R. Tolkien,
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