Re: Paucity of Proto-Uralic & Altaic sources [was: Greenberg and Chong]

Article View: sci.lang

Article #3041

#3041

From: John A. Halloran
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:00

32 lines
2187 bytes

In article <5bie7u$rr2@news.inforamp.net> Peter k Chong <peterk@inforamp.net> writes:

>The problem for me is that, I can't get a hold of many proto-Uralic or 
>Proto-Altaic sources directly since the field of Ural-Altaic linguistics 
>is treated with such apathy. (At least in MHO). Thus I'm left with 
>obtaining lexicons of modern languages (I've found Finnish, Estonian, 
>Magyar, Japanese, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Tatar and Uzbek ones) and only 
>some Sumerian sources. The problem also is that many of the Sumerian 
>sources I can find are written by Deimel (ergo German which I can't 
>understand) so I'm restricted by a linguistic barrier (for now)...

Anyone can order The Uralic Protolanguage: A Comprehensive Reconstruction, by 
Gyula Decsy, 1990, 147 pp.  Cost US$26.00.

Prepaid orders are shipped without additional postage charges to anywhere.  
Send a US check or international money order payable on a US bank to:

Eurolingua
P.O. Box 101
Bloomington, IN 47402-0101

I received the books that I ordered within a month.

A fairly reliable lexicon of the Sumerian vocabulary in English can be found 
at:

http://www.primenet.com/~seagoat/sumerian/

Regards,

John Halloran

Technical Details

Message-ID: <seagoat.810.01ABC4FD@primenet.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <5bie7u$rr2@news.inforamp.net>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 10acf3,3750b7f02a72a730
X-Google-Attributes: gid10acf3,public
X-Google-Thread: 11289b,3750b7f02a72a730
X-Google-Attributes: gid11289b,public
X-Google-Thread: 1157df,3750b7f02a72a730
X-Google-Attributes: gid1157df,public
X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,3750b7f02a72a730
X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public
X-Google-Thread: f9946,3750b7f02a72a730
X-Google-Attributes: gidf9946,public
X-Google-Thread: 106de6,3750b7f02a72a730
X-Google-Attributes: gid106de6,public
From: seagoat@primenet.com (John A. Halloran)
Subject: Re: Paucity of Proto-Uralic & Altaic sources [was: Greenberg and Chong]
Date: 1997/01/16
Message-ID: <seagoat.810.01ABC4FD@primenet.com>
X-Deja-AN: 210312549
references: <5bie7u$rr2@news.inforamp.net>
organization: Primenet
x-posted-by: @204.212.59.60 (seagoat)
newsgroups: sci.lang,soc.culture.magyar,bit.listserv.hungary,soc.culture.turkish,soc.culture.mongolian,sci.classics

Reply to Parent Message