Binandere

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> 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.

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> 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
>
No, but the question was whether the words were loanwords. In which
case both Sumerian and Binandere could be recipients.

Torsten