Re: Easy and Interesting Languages -- Website

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.

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