Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Proto-Indo-European/reply (47)

(Did you mean: "that suggests that the Indo-European and Uralic accusatives are cognate, since they both end in -m."?)

Yep, I've heard all about macro-language-family theories, though I don't believe nearly any of them are true. My personal favorite (the one I find most interesting) is Dené-Caucasian, combining Basque, Sino-Tibetan, Dené-Yenisian, and many others. As for Nostratic/Eurasiatic, I believe that the following language families were for a time in very close contact, even when grammatical elements were forming:
 * Proto-Indo-European/Proto-Indo-Hittite,
 * Proto-Pontic/Proto-Northwest Caucasian,
 * Proto-Caspic/Proto-Northeast Caucasian,
 * Proto-Kartvelian,
 * Proto-Lyndian, and
 * Proto-Uralic.

However, I believe that none of them are genetically or fundamentally derived from a single proto-language. I have heard of, and I do follow, the internal reconstructions you mention, both in Finnish and in PIE.