How likely are chance resemblances between languages?
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https://www.zompist.com/chance.htm
https://www.zompist.com/chance.htm
That site has a lot of good stuff. It's often mentioned by conlangers due to the Language Construction Kit.
Regarding those pseudo-scientific proto-world "reconstructions", there are four patterns that are damn easy to spot, that appear in almost all of them:
And... really, even the idea that there's some sort of "ancestral language" is debatable; Rosenfelder himself mentions the possibility in another text. And if Chomsky is right about Language being primarily to structure thought, instead of communication, it's fairly reasonable that there's no ancestral language to reconstruct a proto-world of.