Re: a weird question...
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 16, 1999, 20:29 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> Heh, I just remembered that I read in _The Language Instinct_ by Steven
> Pinker that the word for dog in a certain Australian Aboriginal language is
> <dog> :)
Also mentioned by Dixon in "The Rise and Fall of Languages". The
language is Mbabaram, the word being descended from *gudaga.
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