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Re: Palawa Kani

From:Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Monday, September 8, 2003, 8:19
Isaac Penzev wrote:

> Hmm. I don't know if the language is NA or AN typologically, > so I used to > assume that the word for 'talk', 'language' is > _kani_. But you may be > right. Strange coincidences may happen!
The only other example I can find on Palawa Kani on those sites is _palawa kani mapali_, where _mapali_ means 'plenty'. This seems to suggest that modifiers follow the head. So it's quite possible that _palawa_ indeed means 'language'. Daniel Andreasson

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