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Add Igneri and Vedda-Sinhala Creole? #73

Closed grenadeforce closed 9 years ago

grenadeforce commented 9 years ago

Igneri was an Arawak language. Island Caribs later displaced the Igneri, took their language and it developed into Island Carib.

The Vedda language predecessor to modern form of Vedda which retains little of the original language and is called Vedda-Sinhala creole.

d97hah commented 9 years ago

Both those lgs are already there

2015-09-12 4:07 GMT+02:00 grenadeforce notifications@github.com:

Igneri was an Arawak language. Island Caribs later displaced the Igneri, took their language and it developed into Island Carib.

The Vedda language predecessor to modern form of Vedda which retains little of the original language and is called Vedda-Sinhala creole.

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grenadeforce commented 9 years ago

No. There is Island Carib, not it's predecessor Igneri. There is "Vedda" but on the website the resources are only talking about Vedda-Sinhala Creole.

d97hah commented 9 years ago

Igneri and Island Carib are the same lg by the glottolog definition. There is no other Vedda language attested than the Sinhala with Vedda lexical items and accent. The earlier sources e.g. Seligmann contain lists of words argued to pertain to the original Vedda language but that's an inference, not an observation. By observation alone one cannot ascertain the existence of a different Vedda lg, so it's not in Glottolog.

2015-09-12 14:26 GMT+02:00 grenadeforce notifications@github.com:

No. There is Island Carib, not it's predecessor Igneri. There is "Vedda" but on the website the resources are only talking about Vedda-Sinhala Creole.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/clld/glottolog-data/issues/73#issuecomment-139753247.