But it should be noted that various form of
reduplication -- partial or full -- occur worldwide (including,
naturally, all the major families of South and Southeast Asia), Indo-Aryan
reduplication is at least partly inherited from PIE, though some of its forms
(such as full expressive reduplication) are likely to be typological borrowings
from substrate languages.
Piotr
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Subject: [tied] Re: Munda (and Austronesian)
--- In cybalist@......,
"S.Kalyanaraman" <kalyan97@......>
wrote:
> --- In cybalist@......,
href="mailto:markodegard@...">markodegard@... wrote:
> I know next to
nothing
> about Munda, but what I've read is intriguing.
> There
seem to be a
> set of Mundaisms that came to Indic via Dravidian
>
first. Munda
> itself seems to have some very ancient Dravidianisms.
>
> There is one common feature which stands out among Munda,
Dravidian
> and IA
and Austronesian
languages:
re-duplications.
Torsten
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