That would be Sundaland before the end of the Ice Age.
Sundaland is an area around Indonesia that is twice the size of present day India that went underwater from Ice Age melt.
Thanks to 'Right Wing Professor' for this post.
Heck, I can't understand (and usually don't want to) people from Massachusetts, so it's not surprising that languages are so diverse.
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Who came up with that name? I'd call it "Sundawater".
I live within sight of glaciers from the last dang Ice Age.
Sundaland sounds like it may be a good place to move to if the glaciers fill my valley again.
I'll betcha that underwater property is cheap like borscht!
BTW, thanks for all your interesting posts.
Sundaland is where the Mackems live next to Newcastle and the Geordies
Marklar Marklar were used in the writing of this marklar.
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Poing. Both science-related, and appropriate for the evolution list (languages evolve from common roots, and the kind of analysis done on these languages uses the same principles as DNA analysis which determines biology phylogenies).
These so-called “scientists” are using the unproven theory that languages “evolve”. The languages are actually due to Intelligent Design, as described in Genesis:
The Tower of Babel
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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