MOTHER TONGUE

ISSUE VII, 2002

In Honor of Joseph H. Greenberg

CONTENTS

Introduction

Table: Taxonomic Proposals by Joseph H. Greenberg

Studies in Linguistic Classification

1 Shabo: A new African Phylum or a Special Relic of Old Nilo-Saharan??: Harold C. Fleming

39 Ongota Lexicon: English-Ongota: Harold C. Fleming

65 The Origin of the Tasmanian Languages: Timothy Usher

85 Reflections on Greenberg's Indo-European and its closest Relatives: Allan A . Bomhard

115 Basque Parallels to Greenberg's Grammatical Evidence for Eurasiatic: Ronald W Thornton

Focus on Southwestern Asia

123 Elam: a Bridge between the Ancient Near East and Dravidian India?: Vaclav Blazek

145 Map: Near East (3000-2500 BC): The Distribution of Known Languages: Vaclav Blazek

146 Figure: Elamite Royal Inscriptions in the Linear Script B: Vaclav Blazek

147 On the Genetic Relation of the Elamite Language: George Starostin

171 Some New Dravidian- Afroasiatic Parallels: Vaclav Blazek

199 Two Words: Two worlds: Panchanan Mohanty

In Search of Mother Tongue

209 Tracing of the Ancestral Kinship System: The Global Etymon KAKA: Part I: A linguistic study: Pierre J. Bancel & Alain Matthey de l'Etang

245 Tracing of the Ancestral Kinship System: The Global Etymon KAKA: Part II: An anthropological study: Alain Matthey de l'Etang & Pierre J. Bancel

259 Was the First Language Purposefully Invented? John M. Saul

Islands unto Themselves: the Andamans

265 The Numeral System of Jarawa Andamanese: Michael Witzel