Re[4]: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

At 12:40:42 PM on Sunday, March 16, 2003, Geraldine
Reinhardt wrote:

> Austro-Asiatic ONLY includes the Munda and Mon-Khmer
> languages.

Munda and Mon-Khmer *families* of languages. Comes to some
75 million speakers or so, at a rough estimate.

> Austronesian includes the languages of Australia and Asia

No, it does not include the Australian languages. And apart
from Malay there are only isolated pockets of Austronesian
languages on the Asian mainland; most are in Oceania.

Brian