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Temujin 1 Juli 2004 jam 5:21am  

Kutip:
Evidence of human life on Taiwan dates back five to ten thousand years ago. Not much is known about the origins of Taiwan's earliest inhabitants except that their language bears more similarity to Indonesian than any Chinese dialect. The island enjoyed relative anonymity until 1206 when Genghis Khan named Taiwan a protectorate of the newly established Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368).
Is there any further details on this ? This sounds impostrous.

Indonesian language is the modernized version of Malay thus hundreds of years ago, it has to be Malay, not Indonesian (Indonesia didn't even exist yet). And thousand of years ago, it could be the old Javanese or Sansekerta, or whatever language was used in a smaller kingdoms, or parts of the archipelago, which we all know speaks hundreds of different dialect.

This comparison doesn't sound valid. How can the article claim that language spoken a long time ago (Taiwan's earliest inhabitants) bear a similarities to Indonesian language which didn't even exist yet.