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Re: Easy and Interesting Languages -- Website

From:<jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, May 27, 2004, 21:38
Mark P. Line scripsit:

> I think he fails to show that Modern Cham cannot be considered a creole > (or former creole) with Austronesian lexifier and Mon-Khmer substrates.
I think the burden of persuasion would be on those who claim that it can, and the required evidence would consist of specifically Mon-Khmer characteristics in modern Cham. The default assumption is that a language is not a creole or ex-creole. -- The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound John Cowan <jcowan@...> free-range chickens (except they have http://www.reutershealth.com teeth, arms instead of wings and http://www.ccil.org/~cowan dinosaurlike tails). --Elyse Grasso

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