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Pozdniakov, Tom Dillehay, Sylvia Yanagisako, Raymond Fogelson, Ian Hodder, Robert Parkin, Alan Barnard, Thomas Trautmann, Emmanuel Désveaux, David Kronenfeld, Harold Scheffler, Johanna Nichols, Joanna Mountain, Lev Zhivotovsky, William Durham, Joseph Greenberg, Merritt Ruhlen, David G. Smith, Yuri Berezkin, Alexander Kozintsev, Robert Proctor, and Theodore Schurr. Boris Rodin Maslov provided all-around assistance, from the sharp critique of the content to the minute corrections of Greek words. Finally, last but not least, comes my like-minded friend Alvah (Pardner) Hicks whose courage, energy, faith, and sense of humor I admire.
The rich resources of the libraries of Stanford University, including the rare studies of African languages from Joseph Greenberg's collection, as well as the University of California at Berkeley and University of Texas at Austin libraries, provided the major contribution to the database. Here, I would like to thank the staff of these libraries for their continuing help in locating and supplying me with necessary publications. Russian sources mostly are derived from the National Library of Russia and the Library of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in St. Petersburg, whose staff infatigably assisted me in the period between the late 1980s and mid-1990s.