Re: Chinese "languages"
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 12, 2000, 2:53 |
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Acadon (I think) replying to Jon. Chang (or vice versa?) wrote:
>Incidently, the language of the ancient state of Wu, may
>have been a form more closely related to Thai. Not a Sinitic
>language at all. But that is another matter.>
Interesting; I had not heard that. If Wu is/was Thai-ic, then it might also
have been Austronesian or AN-influenced. Are there any references for the
Wu-Thai clan (sorry, couldn't resist) theory?