User talk:Kapiehenkineristivaki

A word or two of caution: Wiktionary isn't a place for some of the speculative long-range-comparison stuff like Nostratic- it would be pretty hard to get people here to accept it. There are people here who could give you chapter and verse about how the StarLing database, for instance, has seriously distorted the data to make it line up the way the compilers want it to.

I also noticed that you included Proto-Baltic in an etymology. We generally stick to Proto-Balto-Slavic. I'm not sure why we still have the "bat-pro" language code, since we include the living Balic languages in the East Baltic group, which is closer to Slavic than it is to Old Prussian. It's true that one can reconstruct a proto-language from East Baltic and Old Prussian, but one can do the same with any random combination of languages that are at least distantly related- Proto-English-Welsh or Proto-Franco-Lithuanian. The only linguists who still seem to believe in Proto-Baltic are speakers of Baltic languages, and I suspect that stems from horrible misuse of the Balto-Slavic concept for political reasons in the past. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:19, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Basically all Finnish etymological sources still treat "Baltic" as a valid language grouping. &mdash; S URJECTION / T / C / L / 14:41, 18 July 2022 (UTC)