Re: CONLANG Digest - 21 Feb 2004 to 22 Feb 2004 (#2004-52)

Philippe Caquant wrote:

>If I may ask: isn't it remarkable that languages
>presented as examples for ergativity (Basque, Eskimo,
>Georgian, Dyirbal...) nearly always seem to be used in
>very far-off, hidden and hardly reachable places,
>seeming to indicate that these people had little
>contact with other ones ?
>
>Or maybe one could find couter-examples showing that
>also accusative languages are spoken in such places ?
>
>
>
Um - Basque is scarcely in a far-off nigh-unreachable place...

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