Re: Cool site

Roger Mills wrote:
> Larry Sulky wrote:
>
>>It's not the Indonesian that's the same as "Bellaba"; it's the Motillay.
>>
>
> Well bless my soul, so it is. Very strange. Ethnologue has no listing for
> "Motillay" (Motlav of Vanuatu is closest in spelling) nor for "Kasiui"
> (seems to be a place-name anyhow, in eastern Indonesia acc'g to their map--
> but most of the islands in that area speak AN/Moluccan languages.).
Yes, Kasiui is one of the Moluucan islands. Ethnologue lists 128 living
langs and three dead ones for Maluku - but "Motillay" ain't one of them.
The closest as regards sound of the name is Modole (or Madole), a West
Papuan lang.

 > So it's
> remotely possible it's a Papuan language; it sure ain't Austronesian. Though
> I suspect it's simply a glitch, or someone having a bit of fun-- I wonder if
> the "Bellaba" text turns up anywhere else??
When I typed in the opining words of the Motillay/Bellaba text, Google
found:
http://fotodesignerin.de/prinz/bellaba-textprobe.html

This would seem to confirm that the text is Bellaba. But I not been able
to find out anything about the language.

It seems clear to me that the Motillay entry is suspect.

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