10-17-2006, 10:37 PM
Nichols, as cited by Oppenhemier, states that South asia contains a greater number of languages than new guinea and is second only to sub saharan africa in this regard. basically there is a positive correlation between total thousands of years of occupaion and language number. what happens when we assume a wholescale recent replacement as presupposed by the standard IE paradigm? India simply falls off simply the curve!!!!!