Words (Words!) are symptomatic of the already garbled state of a
language and are therefore useless in such studies, methinks.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Feb 24, 2013, at 4:42 AM, Rev. Bryant J. Williams III wrote:
A recent study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
combined 637 Austronesian languages and 142,000 words to
reconstruct a common ancestor 7,000 years ago
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