Re: Saalangal stuff

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Old Javanese still had a lot of cognate Philippine type morphology--
>infixes
>um/in, ma-, pa- mapa- maka- -an, -@n, but I don't recall what the noun
>markers were like-- plus the texts can be a little obscure; but the system
>resembled PI languages more than most Indonesian languages do. (including
>modern Jav., which seems to have been heavily malayized.)

It would be interesting to see grammatical sketches of the other languages
of Indonesia, and compare those with grammatical sketches of those in the
Philippines to see which languages are closer to others (hmm maybe it's
been done). Isn't Bahasa Indonesia a former creole?

My grandfather's people (Aklanons) trace their history in a sort of
mytho-historical account of ten Datus arriving from Borneo to set up the
province of Aklan in 1213. In fact, my grandfather's home village was
supposedly the second capital of the "Minuro it Akean". His village was
settled in 1437.

I'm wondering how close Aklanon, Kinaray-a, and Ilonggo are to languages
in Borneo.