Significant Lexical Similarities between a Language of Brazil and Some Languages of Southeast Asia and Oceania: From Typolocial Perspective
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The paper examines computationally the similarities in 100-word lists of basic vocabulary between Xokleng (a language of southeastern Brazil, classified as Macro-Ge) and Tagalog and Malay (languages of Southeast Asia) and Fijian, Samoan, and Hawaiian (languages of Oceania). It is found that in all five pair-wise comparisons the resemblances found are statistically highly significant (i.e., are greater-than-chance). A plausible explanation of these results is a possible historical (i.e., genetic or diffusional) relationship between these languages, a conjecture which is in acord with our previous studies, as wel as with some contemporary genetic investigations indicating the existence of genetic affinities between Brazilian Indians and Southeast Asian and Oceanic populations. The hypothesis suggested, however, 122 Significant lexical similarities between a language of Brazil ~ requires a thorough historical linguistic test, including also other relevant languages. One of the basic goals of the paper is to stimulate such test.
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