Hi CircledSquare,
I don't completely understand all of the questions in your last few posts, but I'll try to respond to the ones I think I do:
CircledSquare said:
There is are two scholars I know of, Wim van Binsbergen and Clyde Winters, who make some compelling arguments as to why a) (mostly in the case of Wim) Bantu is a version/product of an additional mixing of "Borean" and local African languages) and b) (mostly in the case of Dr. Winters) why Dravidian is also an offshoot, at least in part, from African languages/culture.
Thanks for the references -- I hadn't heard of either van Binsbergen or Winters before, but I'd like to look into them. From what I've been able to find so far, van Binsbergen's work looks particularly interesting. Winters (http://olmec98.net/archaeogenetics.HTM) appears at first glance to be operating with something of an agenda -- there's some interesting stuff if his papers, though, and I'll take a look at what he has to say about Dravidian when I have a chance.
CircledSquare said:
http://www.asarimhotep.com/documentdownloads/AfricanOriginsoftheWordGod.pdf
The main problem I see with this paper is that the author plays really fast and loose with his comparisons -- he allows a really wide degree of latitude for what counts as related words, and doesn't establish a very rigorous set of correspondences. One can compare nearly anything in this way if the rules are relaxed enough.
CircledSquare said:
So would Proto-Uralic actually be Proto-[in super quotes]Aryan??
I don't think one could make that strong of a statement. A lot can happen in 80,000 years, and I doubt that there's any language (group) that wouldn't have changed a great amount during that length of time -- even in isolation, which it almost certainly wasn't. That being said, it's possible that it's the most conservative present-day descendant of the language (assuming there was only one) that was originally spoken by the original post-Kantek population. Aharon Dolgopolsky, one of the early founders of the Nostratic hypothesis, apparently leaned in this direction and was occasionally criticized for making his Proto-Nostratic reconstructions too dependent upon the Uralic evidence.
CircledSquare said:
Is it true then that there may be various versions of Atlantean, or but still those hanging on (probably dead in North American but not in South America, as in the Amazon?)
Sure -- in my present understanding, all Native American languages (they're not all dead in North America, although they've generally fared worse than those in Central and South America) could be candidates. This is true for some outside of the Americas as well, such as the Karasuk languages (Yeniseian and Burushaski) of Eurasia.
CircledSquare said:
{Would, say, pre-Panthar things = distant relatives of ...Lemurian?...}
Maybe -- I personally associate the Austric groups of Southeast Asia with Lemuria, but as with Atlantis, Lemuria wasn't necessarily a monoracial civilization. It may well have included Australoids (which the Panthars were associated with in the transcripts) as well.
CircledSquare said:
Does this also imply a vast "Exodus" (such as you'd expect of our common myths' narratives) whether Flood related or no, that reflects at least some of the variation and overlap of the "Atlantis" and "Aryan" languages?
If I understand you correctly, I think a lot of population movement that led to contact and intermixture between various groups was probably driven, at least some of the time, by cataclysmic events.