Re: Hobbits spoke Indonesian!

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:30:43 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:


> I do not see how a Taiwanese origin is relevant - no-one, I hope, would use the
> fact that the IE languages appear to've originated in the Black Sea area as an
> argument against the supposition that Latin might have been influenced by
> Etruscan.
You're talking about one specific language with regard to Latin being
influenced by Etruscan. What was mentioned was "the Austronesian
_languages_ implying them as a group. Of course, the AN languages in
Flores could very well be influenced by the hominids, but I doubt that
speakers of the Bontoc languages or the Kankanay in the Philippines
will have any influence in their languages from the hominids on
Flores.

Which is why people mentioned that AN speakers migrated from Taiwan
south into insular SEAsia, because what was said implied that AN
languages spread out from Flores (and yes, I know that that wasn't
what was _meant_)


>Wherever AN originated, speakers of it eventually turned up at
> Flores.
>
Yes, and the Flores languages would've been influenced by the
Hominids, if they had their own language.


> Near as I've heard, however, it cannot be stated with absolute >certainty
> that floresiensis did not surive much longer, long enough that they were around
> to meet AN-speakers coming paddling from Taiwan.
Well, speakers would've paddled in from the Philippines first :D

>That Indonesian languages
> would have at some point have been influenced by whatever floresiensis may have
> spoken does thus as far as I can see still belong to the realm of the possibly,
> if more specifically to the province of highly unlikely.
Perhaps, but I doubt all Indonesian languages would've been influenced
by the ones on Flores.
>
> There's also the possibility that some loans might have been conveyed from
> "Floresian" to AN via whatever was spoken by pre-AN H. sapiens in Indonesia.
Perhaps

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