[An-lang] Proto-Dialect chains

[Piet Lincoln]

Proto-Dialect chainsAm I missing something?

Doesn't your statement


"There was probably a Southern Oceanic linkage, an dialect-chain ancestral to the languages of Vanuatu and New Caledonia. "


imply that there was a slightly older language that was the source of the dialect-chain?    Isn't that what you are reconstructing?


more power to ya!

Piet

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