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

Gerry,

You had said earlier that Austronesian also includes the Australian languages.  Based on everything that I've read, they form at least one, perhaps several language families of their own.  And the Aboriginal languages of Papua-New Guinea may or may not be related to those.

Andy Howey

 Geraldine Reinhardt <waluk@...> wrote:

Apparently we're off list (is this what you intended)?

 

Had no idea that Munda and Mon-Khmer  languages were spoken by 75 million people.

 

Austronesian includes the Formosan, Indonesian, Malay, Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian subfamilies. Wouldn't this amount to more?

 

Gerry

----- Original Message -----

From: Brian M. Scott

To: Geraldine Reinhardt

Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 10:47 AM

Subject: 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




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