Re: Boreanesians and the Pacific Conlang League
From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
Date: | Thursday, April 13, 2000, 20:43 |
In a message dated 4/13/2000 4:10:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
kljensen@IMAGE.DK writes:
<< Boreanesia, on the other hand, is old. Very very VERY old. The
islands are not volcanic islands popping out of the ocean, rather,
they belong to a shelf that broke off from Gondwanaland when
dinosaurs still ruled the Earth. Boreanesia is therefore at least
as old as Australia. >>
Interesting. By whom was it peopled? Australoid? Veddoid? Malay? or Other?
;-))
Surely any islands in that general area would have at least been visited by
Austronesian navigators at many times in the past several thousand years.
Please refresh my memory, if anything about Boreanesian is available. Thanks.