Re: Origin of *marko- (was: Hachmann versus Kossack?)

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57289
Date: 2008-04-14

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Origin of *marko- (was: Hachmann versus Kossack?)


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> --- Richard Wordingham <richard@...>
> wrote:
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>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
>> <fournet.arnaud@...>
>> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
>
>> > Bai ma33
> Trask told me that Bai was a probable 3rd branch of
> Sino-Tibetan. Since then, I've read (maybe in
> Wikipedia?) that it's essentially a relexified TB
> language with Chinese vocabulary and TB grammar. Do
> you have any ideas on that?
>
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My knowledge of Bai is a hair above zero.

But the notion that it's a third branch is strange.
What are the two others ?

Arnaud
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