Joe wrote:
> J Y S Czhang wrote:
>
> >In a message dated 10/29/2004 1:10:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Joe
> ><joe@...> writes:
> >
> >>Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >>
> >>>There does not seem to be any reason to totally exclude that
> >>>possibility.
> >>>
> >>Except that the Austronesian languages seem to have originated from
> >>Taiwan...
> >>
And are reconstructed only back to ~5000 B.C.E...
> >
> >Intriguing. Gives some credence to the Malayo-Polynesian-Tai Hypothesis
> >to some degree AFAIK.
> >
> Erm..Taiwan, not Thailand.
No, there is indeed an AN+Thai hypothesis, most recently/convincingly
proposed by Paul Benedict back in the 1940s or 50s; it's still
controversial. Also an AN+Austroasiatic (which may or may not include
Thai), and even attempts to find an AN + Sino-Tibetan relation-- on the
assumption that ANs came to Taiwan from somewhere on the mainland.
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