Indo-Pacific languages
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indo-pacific-languages-180-15244468
title:
Indo-Pacific languages
text:
Indo-Pacific is a hypothetical language macrofamily proposed in 1971 by Joseph Greenberg and now believed to be spurious. It grouped together the Papuan languages of New Guinea and Melanesia with the languages of the Andaman Islands and, tentatively, the languages of Tasmania, both of which are remote from New Guinea. The valid cognates Greenberg found turned out to be reflexes of the less extensive Trans–New Guinea family. Recently the Kusunda language, which is generally seen as a language iso
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Hypothetical language macrofamily
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pacific_languages
date created:
2004-03-23T02:53:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T02:02:03Z
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