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.
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>Right. An old familiar story.....
Exactly ;)
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>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 :).