Re: dating of aryans

--- david_russell_watson <liberty@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Jarrette
> <anjarrette@...> wrote:
> >
> > I'm a latecomer to this thread, but this point you
> make
> > is interesting to me. Could you please identify
> any of
> > these modern languages as intricate and complex as
> Proto-
> > Indo-European or Sanskrit yet spoken by peoples
> generally
> > considered fairly technologically primitive?
>
> I mainly had in mind some of the languages of New
> Guinea,
> a Papuan language named Imas being the only one for
> which
> I can recall any detail now. It has a very complex
> verbal
> system, and many more noun classes than the three
> genders
> we're used to.
>
> I don't know where I first read about Imas, though,
> and I
> couldn't find any mention of it searching on Google
> today
> either.
>
> ???
>
> David
>

It's probably mentioned in here. Although I got it at
Strand Books in NY for about $15 "used" but in mint
condition
It has several descriptions of super-complicated
morphologies, etc.

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