Knock! Knock! Who's there?

[Wolfgang Schulze]

Just for the records:

Malgasy has

	iza izao?
	who now

or	iza izany?
	who that

[izany is colloquial for _io_ "this over here" or _ity_ "this over
there"]

_iza_ alone seems impossible according to my informants.


Wolfgang

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang SCHULZE
Institut für Allgemeine und Indogermanische
Sprachwissenschaft * Universität München
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 * D-80539 München
Tel.: +89-2180 2486
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/