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Re: Saalangal stuff

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Saturday, December 8, 2001, 6:31
Roger Mills  writes:
>Yes, by the 1200s they would have known all about "states" and >"governments". Any idea what part of Borneo they supposedly came from?
All the accounts of the story never say where exactly in Borneo they come from.
> >Right. An old familiar story.....
Exactly ;)
> > >It's pretty much agreed: original. The system is found in the Taiwanese >languages, and that's supposed to have been the Homeland. And many >languages preserve hints of it (as Malay/Indo. does, and a lot of Oceanic) >even if most of the morphology has been lost or changed.
Nifty! So the PI, and Taiwanese languages tend to be more conservative? Oooh, impressive :).

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