--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...>" <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > --- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "John <jdcroft@...>"
> > <jdcroft@...> wrote:
> > > Hi Torsten
> > >
> > > > Bantu(?)
> > > > Sandawe korongo "long-horned cattle"
> > >
> > > I thought Sandawe was a Khoisanid language.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > So did I, and you're probably right. That's what the question

mark

> > was about. The "Bantu" epithet comes from the book I took it from
> > which I found on the shelf with Very Odd Books at the linguistics
> > library. It also has very odd sets of comparisons. I hope his
> sources
> > are OK. He doesn't promote any theory of PAn - African

connection,

> so
> > at least he's not biased in that direction.
>
> Sandawe isn't even Khoisan. It's an isolate. See
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/16108 and
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/16244 !
>
> Richard.

Which means that if the words aren't found in the surrounding Bantu
languages and thus can't be a loan from them, it might date back to
PAn (PMP?) contacts before the Bantu invasion.

Torsten