Talk:Mahakiranti languages

Bodic as geographic?
This article says "In van Driem's conception, Bodic is a geographic term, but some Bodic families do appear to be related to each other." How does that fit with van Driem's proposal of a Sino-Bodic node? Kanguole 17:03, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I think they are different proposals altogether: his 2001 proposal, a tree with a Sino-Bodic node, and his 2011 proposal, an agnostic model, which does not recognise a Bodic node. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:50, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The paragraph containing this sentence seems to be about van Driem (2001), though. Kanguole 18:54, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I haven't inspected van Driem (2001) personally, but his recognition of Sino-Bodic as valid does not exclude that he views Bodic merely as a term of convenience (grouping several not necessarily closely related groups) rather than a valid node; Sino-Bodic would simply have more than two branches then: Sinitic, Bodish, West Himalayish, Tamangic, Kiranti and several isolates, whose exact interrelationship is not addressed. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 19:17, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * He draws a "model of pre-historic dispersals" incorporating "genetic working hypotheses" (Diagram 16 on p. 399, similar to Fig. 1 of the Sino-Bodic paper, where he calls it a language family tree) with a Sino-Bodic subtree having Bodic and Sinitic branches, the former subdivided into Bodish and Himalayan branches. Elsewhere he seems to use "Bodic" in Shafer's sense without discussion.  In general, van Driem (2001) is not sufficiently explicit about what he means by the term to support the above sentence.  Kanguole 09:48, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

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