John Cowan wrote:
>
>Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
>
> > (I mean, it's
> > clear that modern tribes in the forests of New Guinea had until
> > recently no reason to have a word for "gun" or "penicillin",
>
>Dougie's lovely list of lexical gaps:
>
># [H]ow do you say "skyjacking" in Hunnish, or "ribosome" in Phoenician,
># or "jazzercise" in Aramaic?
Is anything substantial known about Hunnish?
Andreas
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