--- In mundarica@yahoogroups.com, Harald Hammarström <harald@...> wrote:
>
> What is the evidence for Munda being related to Mon-Khmer? Is there
> some recent summary of the case somewhere? There's a great deal of
> new data since W Schmidt (to say the least), which should make
> the issue clearer.

As far as I know, Heinz-Juergen Pinnow's 1959 _Vergleichende
Lautlehre der Kharia Sprache [Comparative Phonology of the Kharia
Language]_ is probably still the most comprehensive source for post-
Schmidt evidence of Munda being related to Mon-Khmer. The book also
provides much evidence for Schmidt's Austroasiatic hypothesis being a
valid taxonomic construct. Pinnow's work is of course dated because
it was produced well before the new data explosion began to take
place in both the Munda and Mon-Khmer areas.

Also see my web site at http://home.att.net/~lvhayes/home.htm where a
glossary of 458 Austric comparisons is presented. Munda vocabulary is
included. A great deal of it comes from Pinnow 1959, but other
material is also included. Most of the Munda data is still dated, and
it will be a delight to see _The Munda Online Comparative Dictionary_
come online (whenever that will be) with its "roughly 50,000 entries
from 12 languages" (http://www.livingtongues.org/moremunda.html).

LV Hayes