When gLeN pointed us to a Canadian site on Tagalog, my first
though
was that it matched a brief description of Semitic triliteralism
far
better than the Semitic languages do! This confirms that
Proto-
Austronesian is a feral Semitic-based con-lang :)
It would be
nice to hook up Austronesian and Nostratic, but, although
it might resolve
the place of Japanese (Altaic?, Austro-Tai?), I
suspect that is getting
rather proto-Worldian. (The same's been said
of including Afro-Asian
in Nostratic.) What are the feelings of the
long rangers? I
don't think it is favourable - see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nostratic/message/173
and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nostratic/message/674
.
Richard.