GEOG 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Indonesian Language, Tok Pisin, Tocharian Languages
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Ie langs either arose in fc or ukraine spread to ireland, india, w ch very quickly alonw we axis. W china - tocharian languages used to be one big continent, ng was the n margin cut off recently by rising sea levels - 10k y/a. Ng ag never developed into states most impoverished ag region. Australian region most distinctive isolated for 80m years some animals remaininf from gondwanaland diversified. N aus: look like ng orig 200k of them abo aus and ng are distantly related dark skinned coiled hair north coast of ng - 100k ppl look like asians. Languages aus langs unrelated to all others, even ng. 300 are austronesian, like indonesian, tagalog north coast where indonesians settled. Papuan language - native to ng some have spread e-w dozens of separate families some tonal/nontonal today, ng needs a national language. Papua new guinea: in the east, use tok pisin, a creole of german, english, and native language.
