Re: CHAT: Re : CHAT: Re: minimum phonemes, was Re: vrindo

mpearson@pop.ucla.edu writes:
>The historical connection between Hawaiian, Tahitian, and Malay is
>far from disputed.  All three are Austronesian languages - and fairly
>closely related ones at that, since they all belong to the Malayo-
>Polynesian branch.  As for Japanese, I've heard some linguists posit
>an Austronesian substrate in the language (making Japanese historically
>an Altaic-Austronesian creole, perhaps?), but I don't know if that
>idea is very widely accepted.
>
>Matt.

I found a web page that compares words from several austronesian languages
(some are: bunun, malagasy, hawai'ian, tahtian, samoan, maori, cebuano,
tagalog, ilokano) and one thing i noticed is that in all the languages
they compared, the numbers five and eight had very few sound changes among
all of the numbers. I just find that interesting =). Anyway if you want to
visit the page, it is at: http://www.alibataatpandesal.com/masaka.html


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