Jon is studying linguistics and may chime in as well.
I'm not aware of any accepted reconstructed proto languages that go back further than several thousand years or so. The reconstructions that do reach back far enough are not generally accepted as valid.
Joe's talking about stuff that (according to him) happened 50k years ago or more.
Comparative linguistics won't be much use here.
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