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<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>Am I missing something?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>Doesn't your statement</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>"There was probably a Southern Oceanic <FONT face=Arial
size=2>linkage</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>, an dialect-chain ancestral to the
languages of Vanuatu and New Caledonia. "</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>imply that there was a slightly older language
that was the source of the dialect-chain? Isn't that what you are
reconstructing?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>more power to ya!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=3>Piet</FONT></DIV>
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