Re: [tied] a(i)s-

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 9978
Date: 2001-10-03

I've just found out that Binandere, listed among some twenty Austronesian languages by Manansala, is not AN at all -- it's a "Trans-NG" language of Papua New Guinea. Of course Sumerian did not take any loans from present-day Papua New Guinea either.
 
Piotr
 
 
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] a(i)s-

The fact that, say, modern Binandere has a "fire" word which looks exactly like Sumerian izi (used almost 5000 years ago), means nothing. Sumerian didn't borrow words from modern Binandere, and the early MP prototype of the Binandere "fire" word was not like <izi> at all.