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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [QB] [i]Blench pp. 180-181 gives some of the linguistic rationale for his proposal[/i] No he didn't say anything specific. Quoting him... [i]All in all, the pattern of African language phyla is both evident and puzzling. The great majority of the African land mass is occupied by speakers of languages that are assigned to clearly defined phyla while the isolates from a small and uncertain list.[/i] The above is tautological mystification. By definition language "isolates" form small groups with uncertain relationships to other languages, while the major language 'families' form by definition relatively clear relationships which is what makes them families to begin with. He has neither identified a mystery nor proposed a resolution to one. Disagree? Take the above statement and replace the word Africa with Asia, how the conclusion be any less applicable? Are there not large related familes, and small unclearly situtated language isolates? The comparison with Melanesia and the New world [and each taken as isolates] seems contrived - they are vastly different in temporal and physical scale than is Africa. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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