tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post1398686141288072100..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: The comings and goings of Near Eastern and European domestic pigs (Ottoni et al. 2012)Dienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-14793551340400550192012-11-24T04:31:56.575+02:002012-11-24T04:31:56.575+02:00One thing I've always wondered about: Northwes...<i>One thing I've always wondered about: Northwest and Northeast Caucasian languages have words for "pig" that are clearly related to the Southeast Asian Wanderwort for "pig, boar", something like *~rekw, *~likw. Forms like these are found everywhere from Andamanese to Sino-Tibetan to Austronesian to Austro-Asiatic all the way to Abkhaz ! On the other hand, there is no obvious intermediate source say, in Central Asia...</i><br /><br />There is no language family in Central Asia surviving from the Neolithic times, maybe save for Burushaski (don't know the words for "pig" and "boar" in Burushaski).Onur Dincerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05041378853428912894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-43015082734310123092012-11-24T00:12:02.810+02:002012-11-24T00:12:02.810+02:00One thing I've always wondered about: Northwes...One thing I've always wondered about: Northwest and Northeast Caucasian languages have words for "pig" that are clearly related to the Southeast Asian Wanderwort for "pig, boar", something like *~rekw, *~likw. Forms like these are found everywhere from Andamanese to Sino-Tibetan to Austronesian to Austro-Asiatic all the way to Abkhaz ! On the other hand, there is no obvious intermediate source say, in Central Asia... tewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03905555876122154861noreply@blogger.com