NEPALI-ENGLISH

Kusunda: An Indo-Pacific language in Nepal

By Ruhlen M. , Whitehouse P. , Usher T. , Wang W.S.-Y.

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nepali-english
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Linguistics Foreign
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2017-08-07 07:01:42
Языки и языкознание;Непальский язык;Языки Непала

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Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, 2004 - 4 p. The Kusunda people of central Nepal have long been regarded as a relic tribe of South Asia. They are, or were until recently, seminomadic hunter-gatherers, living in jungles and forests, with a language that shows no similarities to surrounding languages. They are often described as shorter and darker than neighboring tribes. Our research indicates that the Kusunda language is a member of the Indo-Pacific family. This is a surprising finding inasmuch as the Indo-Pacific family is located on New Guinea and surrounding islands. The possibility that Kusunda is a remnant of the migration that led to the initial peopling of New Guinea and Australia warrants additional investigation from both a linguistic and genetic perspective

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