Re: R: Re: Greenberg's universals
| From: | Nik <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 16, 2000, 2:37 |
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Dan Sulani wrote:
> Interesting. What's the situation in the Hamitic
> branch of Afro-Asiatic? Or Proto-Afro-Asiatic itself?
There's no "Hamitic branch", but the various branches have different
orders, Classic Semitic, Egyptian, and Berber are VSO, Cushitic is
mostly SOV, and Chadic is mainly SVO. So, it's not known which order
PAA was.
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