[tied] Re: IE right & 10

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

> Richard:
> > My understanding is that the Proto-Austronesian speakers grew
> > *pajei 'rice'. (Earliest known rice cultivation is 5000 BC

across

> > the strait in Zhejiang, and the Proto-Austronesian split is

dated to

> > c. 4000 BC.)
>
> The 'split' from what? Which theory are we talking about?

Split from itself, i.e. split up. As to the second part, are you
after anything more precise than 'out of Taiwan'?

Richard.