Re: LANGUAGE LAWS

> > That's jumping to conclusions, don't you think?  I mean, there's so few
> > "stone age" languages to study, and those that exist are mostly in
There are about a gazillion 'stone age' languages to study.  Try about
1000 in New Guinea, ALL of the Americas at contact and many of those
have been studied and documented, not enough of them, but many of them.
Ishi was still making stone tools when he wandered out the woods in
California, indeed a particular kind of flintknapping tool is called an
Ishi stick.  Consider that the languages of the Americas are at most
a few generations away from stone tool use, any such hypothesis should
be quite testable.
Just my 2 cents,
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