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Languages of the World in 1200 BC

Tides of History

CHAPTER

The Origin of the Asian Languages

By 12 hundred b c, the malao polynesian expansion was already under way. Tiwan is almost certainly the origin point for all of the astronesian language that are to day spread across the globe. North of these islands lay another massive chain, the islands of japan. The languages ancestral to those we know from better documented periods certainly existed,. but where they were spoken and by whom is really hard for us to say.

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