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Oh God, the more I read from that blog the more I think he's tremendously confused particularly after he became obsessed with establishing this unlikely close connection between Proto-Uralic and Proto-IE as the similar languages of neighbor cultures in the Pontic-Caspian steppe. I wonder who told him the "Indo-Uralic" hypothesis is even remotely about a close, direct relationship between IE and Uralic, the connections, if you take out all probable loanwords, are at best VERY tenuous and mostly rest on extremely basic and stable parts of the lexicon and syntax, mainly the forms of some (some, not most) personal and relative pronouns. And here he is trying to make us believe that Khvalynsk-Sredny Stog I spoke Indo-Uralic in 5,000 BC, that late Sredny Stog (which he assumes is the only genetic AND cultural ancestor of CWC) was already speaking fully formed Proto-Uralic by 4,000-3,500 BC (Sredny Stog was absorbed by Yamna right after 3,500 BC), and that Yamna was already speaking Late PIE in 3,500-3,000 BC! Come on, even from just a basic linguistic point of view, this is extremely improbable, if not dowright impossible. Proto-Anatolian split from PIE centuries earlier than the other branches, probably as early as 4,000-3,500 BC, so are we to assume that the split of Proto-Anatolian was just ~1,000 years after the split of Proto-Uralic, which is, compared to PIE, an absurdly divergent language with few traces of possible common roots?
And then there is all that obsession with CWC being the ancestor of Uralic languages even though virtually half of Uralic branches appeared where CWC never even existed, east of the Urals, and it is Siberian admixture (even if a minor one) and N1c, not R1a-M417, that are genetic markers really found in ALL Uralic-speaking regions without excepton... This idea of "Uralic Sredny Stog", even though Sredny Stog and Yamna clearly had much closer origins than any reasonable Indo-Uralic proposal imagined, seems to have become his fixture. :-O