Re: Who can explain the comparisons?

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sree nathan" <sreenathan.ansi@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Who can explain the comparisons?
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> >> We are mostly talking about neolithic cultures
> and associated linguistic
> >> families.
> >> The corollary structure of the Indian antiquity
> is a Neolithic
> >> expression.
> >> sreenathan
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> Which antiquity do you give to "Neolithic" ?
>
> Some of present-day linguistic groups must pre-date
> Neolithic, mustn't they
> ?
>
> Arnaud
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Following Bellwood, Language families as we now know
them date back to the start of agriculture --i.e.
groups that spread over large expanses, colonizing new
territories and out-breeding competitors. Until then,
I most language groups were obstensibly very small in
comparison to modern groups. Austro-Asiatic may have
been the first group in S and SE Asia to undergo such
an expansion.