[tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"

From: tgpedersen
Message: 19016
Date: 2003-02-22

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> But the Munda layer is thicker, and the Nahali verb system is
reportedly Munda-like. The unidentified substrate is said to account
for about 25% of the vocabulary. Perhaps the fairest description of
Nahali would be this: an old creole language that has been
decreolised in favour of its Indo-Aryan component.
>
> Piotr
>
How does one 'decreolise'?. Do you mean 'relexify'? Or are you
talking about greater influence of IA grammar and morphology?

BTW Was a clear result reached by the discusion of the original
(supposedly intrusive) language responsible for the centum-words of
Bangani? Or is it the IA equivalent of Sardic?

Torsten