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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Rev. Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Recreating the Origins of Language
  • Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:29:37 -0500

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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