Re: FYI re: Greenberg's Universals
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 4, 2000, 1:58 |
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In a message dated 2000:10:03 5:24:16 PM:
>On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:51:57PM -0400, Jonathan Chang wrote:
>> FYI: Greenberg's 1966 study surveyed only 30 languages:
>> Basque, Serbian, Welsh, Norwegian, Modern Greek, Italian, Finnish
(European);
>> Yoruba, Nubian, Swahili, Fulani, Masai, Songhai, Berber (African);
>> Turkish, Hebrew, Burushaski, Hindi, Kannada, Japanese, Thai, Burmese,
>Malay
>> (Asian);
>> Maori, Loritja (Oceanic);
>> Maya, Zapotec, Quechua, Chibcha, Guarani (American Indian)
, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG writes:
>Hmm. No Mandarin?? How did he miss it, it being such a prominent (and
>prominently isolating) language in the Orient? And no English either? Why?
Beats me. Very odd survey if you ask me... and then to "make up"
Universals from this scanty survey ... 0_o?
czHANg