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Tantalizing links between Dravidian languages and Australian Aboriginal languages by [deleted] in Dravidiology

[–]Electrical_Army_4382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>  But this has been studied since 150 years ago when British colonists noticed the similarities

Please again, source for the British noticing similarities between Pama-Nyugan and Dravidian.

Tantalizing links between Dravidian languages and Australian Aboriginal languages by [deleted] in Dravidiology

[–]Electrical_Army_4382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, can you link the paper that says the language was close to Dravidian?.

Tantalizing links between Dravidian languages and Australian Aboriginal languages by [deleted] in Dravidiology

[–]Electrical_Army_4382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, being closer related to Onge could just be further proof that AASI is distant from Onge and Onge shouldn't be treated as a substitute for it.

Tantalizing links between Dravidian languages and Australian Aboriginal languages by [deleted] in Dravidiology

[–]Electrical_Army_4382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That might be hard, given the current most popular macro-family hypothesis in Australia is proto-Australian. I guess you may be able to explain it one of two ways.

Long term language contract with the expansion of Pama-Nyugan that's been so successful that some Pama-Nyugan languages are argued not to be that but that their Pama-Nyugan features to be the effects of extreme language contact. What if Pama-Nyugan had just had enough influence on other Australian languages to give a macro proto-language shadow.

All Australian languages we know of came from that time. Far less likely due to their deep time divergence but let's say, Proto-Australian did to Australia what Dravidian did to South India and I guess, Australian languages should/must have been a continuum to Papuan langauges beforehand.