Re: THEORY: A possible Proto-World phonology
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 29, 2000, 15:14 |
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At 22:52 28.6.2000 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
>Curiously, my field, Austronesian, gets left out of all this speculation.
>The level of reconstruction is _almost_ comparable to IE (though lacking in
>early documentation).
There have been attempts at grouping Austronesian with Dravidian, Japanese,
Korean -- singly and in various combos. Some (more serious?) attempts have
been made with some New Guinean and Australian lgs. Then there have of
course been the customary Sumerian and Burushaski crackposts.
BTW: Burushaski is very poor on inherited vocab. Almost everything is
borrowed from neighboring Indo-Iranian (mostly Dardic) languages. There is
also an intriguing Bodic (early/pre-Tibetan) stratum. Bu. Morphology is
otoh entirely sui_generis.
/BP
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