“…Trask, et al, can make such declarations only by ignoring evidence for the genetic affinity of Basque with Dene-Caucasian (Caucasian, Sino-Tibetan, Yeniseian, NaDene) that other linguists in the past (e.g., Lafon 1949, 1951, Uhlenbeck 1924) and the present (e.g., Blaiek 1995, Blaiek and Bengtson 1995, Ruhlen 1995, Shevoroshkin 1995, Starostin 1996a, 1996b, Wescott 1995 have found strongly suggestive, if not outright probative. Among some 74 Basque-Dene-Caucasian comparisons found to be "plausible, .…”