Re: Dune Conlang

"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.

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