Re: Languages of Africa

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:53:52 GMT

Jacques Guy wrote:
>
> Anti-imperialist wrote:
>
> > "The greatest linguistic diversity appears to be in Africa.
>
> Papua-New Guinea, moron.

Did you manage to miss "Indo-Pacific"?

That was G's proposal that disappeared with nary a trace, to unite all
of NAN PNG plus Tasmanian and Andamanese.

(The less one knows about something, the easier it is to include it in
generalizations -- which is why the African languages are excluded from
the earlier generalization.) 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net