Re: Check out "Austronesian Language Comparison"

On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 12:13  PM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Now, the question remains why a language like Tagalog would feel the
> need to
> borrow a word for "island" - I might have expected it to have quite
> enough of them natively!
>
>                                                               Andreas
Rokbeigalmki did the same thing.  The native word for "island", |itãl|,
has been ovetaken by the borrowed, similar-sounding word |tol| of
Elvish origin.
Although using a conlang to prove a natlang may not actually prove
anything :-P


-Stephen (Steg)
  "why i reach out to you and you to me
   we become [b@ts)'ElEm ?E.lo:qi:m]..."
      ~ 'b'tzelem eloqim'