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Linguists Discover Previously Unidentified Language In Malaysia
- cyberferret 9y agoThere is no clarification in the article (unless I missed it) that Jedek is a derivation, or based on Bahasa Melayu (the Malay language)? Here is Australia, almost every Aboriginal tribe has their own dialect. Often times tribes that lived only a few hundred miles apart had their own unique language. Not surprising that the article mentions there are over 7000 different languages spoken on this planet.
- abrowne 9y agoThey imply it's in the Austoasiatic language subfamily Aslian¹: "Some of these words suggested a link with other Aslian languages [...]". Austoasiatic² is the family that includes Vietnamese and Khmer, but not Malay. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aslian_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aslian_languages 2: AKA Mon-Khmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroasiatic_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroasiatic_languages
- dgut 9y agoIt's evolution. Isolation=diversity.
- posterboy 9y agoRegarding the words for mother all around the world, I have little doubt that we all speak the same language, only vastly different varieties. I'm getting into semantics, but in this case, semantics seems on-topic :)