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They obviously didn't evolve there independently from other humans. They and the other tribes have common ancestry, and a common root language. I doubt anyone k
by DougWebb 10y ago
They obviously didn't evolve there independently from other humans. They and the other tribes have common ancestry, and a common root language. I doubt anyone knows about inter-tribal contact through those 60,000 years that could have kept the languages from diverging too much.
- x1798DE 10y agoAccording to the current Wikipedia article on the Sentinelese language [1], it is not mutually intelligible with Onge. This is more like what I would have expected from a strictly xenophobic and (presumably non-literate) tribe, but it doesn't square with the account in the article... [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_language