Re: Pali and Tagalog Question...

Barry nevesht:
>CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Undoubtedly borrowed.  Quite likely via Malay or Javanese, though it's
> >interesting that Tag. has preserved the /h/, unlike them.
> >
>Often don't words borrowed into languages often stay fairly stable, unlike
>words that the language originally had? Course i may be crazy. ANd
>naturally all sorts of strange things happen with borrowings.
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> >An old book (from the 50s or 60s) gives a pretty complete summation of
> >Skt.
> >loans in Indonesia, and you'll no doubt recognize some Philippine friends
> >there too--- Gonda _Sanskrit in Indonesia_.
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>Hmm i should look for that.
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> >Remember the Tasaday foofaraw? One of the giveaways that they were not a
> >"stone age people" was their word for God, liwata IIRC-- clearly Skt.
> >devata via some neighboring language, hence most likely post A.D. 1 or
>so,
> >and clearly they were not as isolated as was claimed.
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>I remember that controversy. Supposedly they were one of the last
>untainted tribes left. I found that hard to believe. There's a lot of
>remote places, but there's no way they could have been that disconnected
>from the rest of the tribes. I simply think that they were a group that
>decided to simply become nomads, rather than trying to cultivate the
>forest.
As I understand it, their ancestors were refugees from slavers, went inland,
lost technology, and became isolated for self protection. They lived in the
forest but weren't to good at it, having only lived there about 500yrs.


-Wayne Chevrier






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