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Re: [b-hebrew] Recreating the Origins of Language

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

[b-hebrew] Recreating the Origins of Language, Rev. Bryant J. Williams III, 02/24/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Recreating the Origins of Language, Isaac Fried, 02/24/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Recreating the Origins of Language, Will Parsons, 02/24/2013
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Recreating the Origins of Language, Isaac Fried, 02/24/2013
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Recreating the Origins of Language, Will Parsons, 02/24/2013
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Recreating the Origins of Language, Isaac Fried, 02/25/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Recreating the Origins of Language, Jack Kilmon, 02/24/2013
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Recreating the Origins of Language, Isaac Fried, 02/24/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Recreating the Origins of Language, K Randolph, 02/25/2013