Re: OT: slightly OT: language ID's?

Roger Mills wrote:
> >"Dances of Kwenyii," Wapa tribe (music-group name?  "Actual" tribe?  who
> >knows?), from Chants Kanaks: Cérémonies et Berceuses>
>Wild guess based on the word kanak: likely 'person, man' in one of many
>highly aberrant Austronesian lgs. of Nouvelle Caledonie; or Melanesian, but
>I dont think the French ever got into Melanesia.
Hm, your definition of "Melanesia" must differ from mine, according to which
Nouvelle Caledonie is part of Melanesia!

                                                  Andreas
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