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Re: Dune Conlang

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Friday, November 12, 1999, 8:57
"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:

> In any event, even granting such people complete truth to their > theory, I would still say even 10000 years is a more or less total > solvent on what might have originally been the status of the > protolanguage from which English, or for that matter Galach, > come. IMO there is simple too much assuming that's going on > and too little empiricism as one progresses backwards in history.
Most of the non-kook linguists seem to agree with you. But ... populations were much smaller, which tends to slow language innovation, so I wonder, thinking of the Austronesian family which is probably (?) much older than Semitic and PIE, if some isolated remaining dialects of it show some unusually "time-deep" commonalities? Or maybe rock paintings with a similar ordering of motifs suggestive of a linguistic analogy? Kinda far-fetched. -- As they say in Tepa: hike waipettu.