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34 Post author: Yvain 15 March 2009 07:30PM

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Comment author: Yvain 15 March 2009 10:39:34PM 3 points [-]

Okay. I don't know much about linguistics, so I accept your correction.

Would you call the people who are trying to determine whether Nostratic and Amerind are real families, or whether Basque is related to Caucasian languages, and those sorts of things "comparative linguists"? If not, what would you call them?