Re: Did you say OSV? Was: Arawakan.
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 9, 2002, 5:59 |
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Sally Caves wrote:
>I couldn't help but prick my ears up at this
>bit of news. Is Arawakan a natlang? And
>OSV? I need to find out about this language,
>since Teonaht, as many people know, is also
>OSV. I would be very curious to know what
>other features this language exhibits. I was
>also under the impression that there were
>several natlangs that had OSV, but all of them
>from the same small language group in South
>America.
AFAIK, AIAOTC (As far as I know, and I am open to correction)
Arawakan is a language family, mostly in S.America now, but pre-Conquest
widespread throughout the Caribbean basic. The modern languages are found
along the northern coast of SA; I'm not sure how far inland the family
extends.
A language frequently cited as OSV is Hixkarana, also S.American, but I
don't recall ever seeing its family affiliation. So, with Rob's language,
the other one cited (began with J....) and Hixkarana, we have 3
OSVs...unless those are just variant names for the same language?
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