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Re: Asian Awareness
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Susanne Vitoux <[log in to unmask]>
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SCUBA or ELSE! Diver's forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:30:11 +0700
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Asian Awareness
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>
> It is important to note that the fishermen-farmers who crossed the straits
> to Taiwan were not the Sino-Tibetan speaking Han Chinese who today make up
> the great majority of the Chinese population. Linguistic evidence from
> Taiwan suggests that they spoke an Austronesian language closely related
to
> the Tai-Kadai language family that is the dominant language group today in
> Laos, Thailand and the north and east of Burma.

Interesting stuff. Still, it seems that the dominant theory / thesis is to
consider Thai and "cousin" languages such as Lao as integral part of the
Sino-Tibetan family.

Jean-Marc

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