Re: Related languages (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: António Marques (m.ap_at_sapo.pt)
Date: 03/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:45:41 +0000

phippsmartin@hotmail.com wrote:

> Surely people in Latin America didn't always speak Spanish and
> Portuguese? What happened to their native languages? Or were they all
> mute before the Europeans came?

People in LA were never very many, and most were decimated. Some LA
countries preserve a respectable amount of people of native american ascent,
but others do not. This adds nothing to the discussion, but it's just to
point out that the majority of the ancestors of people in LA were not native
americans and never spoke a native american language. 

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António Marques
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