12-01-04 15:10, tgpedersen wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
> <marcomoretti69@...> wrote:
>> So the matchup is rough.
>> It is a word with a plain structure, it can be found almost
>> everywhere.
>>
>
> In that case, please provide three or four.
If one just takes the names of languages beginning with <van-> or <wan->
in the Ethnologue database and excludes cases of <vang-> and <wang->
where <-ng-> evidently stands for [N], one gets these:
VANGUNU
VANIMO
VANO
VANUMA
WAN
WANAMBRE
WANAP
WANDA
WANDALA
WANDAMEN
WANDARANG
WANDJI
WANÉ
WANECI
WANIB
WANJI
WANMAN
WANNU
WANO
WANTOAT
WANUKAKA
The Wandala must be descentants of the Vandals who found refuge in
Cameroon and Nigeria after the collapse of their North African kingdom
and adopted a Chadic language. One could also run an extended search
using a Torstenian-style template such as b/v/w-n/l/r to get hundreds of
matches.
Piotr