Re: Re[4]: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

Apparently we're off list (is this what you intended)?

Had no idea that Munda and Mon-Khmer languages were spoken by 75 million people.

Austronesian includes the Formosan, Indonesian, Malay, Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian subfamilies. Wouldn't this amount to more?

Gerry

----- Original Message -----

From: Brian M. Scott

To: Geraldine Reinhardt

Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 10:47 AM

Subject: Re[4]: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

At 12:40:42 PM on Sunday, March 16, 2003, Geraldine Reinhardt wrote: > Austro-Asiatic ONLY includes the Munda and Mon-Khmer > languages. Munda and Mon-Khmer *families* of languages. Comes to some 75 million speakers or so, at a rough estimate. > Austronesian includes the languages of Australia and Asia No, it does not include the Australian languages. And apart from Malay there are only isolated pockets of Austronesian languages on the Asian mainland; most are in Oceania. Brian

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