Re: Judean-Sanskrit/Bantu/Austronesian?

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, vardi wrote:

> But really, why limit ourselves to the Jews?  Here are a couple more
> ideas to add to Kristian's list before I sign off:
>
> 1: What if the Welsh-speaking settlers in Patagonia, instead of more or
> less fizzling out, had dominated the mainly Castillian-speaking
> surrounding population?  How would the resulting language (Gallego,
> perhaps :):)) have looked?
>
> 2: Perhaps one of the biggest linguistic "ifs" of all: what if French,
> and not English, had become the majority language (lingua franca?) of
> the European settlers in North America (with a Que'bec-style Anglo
> island in, say, New England)?  What would this French look like, how
> would it have influenced, and been influenced by, Native American
> languages and the other immigrant languages, and what would its
> relationship with Metropolitan French have been?
Let's not forget the little-known Sino-Mayan creole spoken in a remote
little region of the Leizhou Peninsula, founded by trans-Pacific Mayan
canoeing champions of the 8th century, and in which language the collected
works of the Tang poets are preserved in peculiar hieroglypic splendor!

Kenji Schwarz