The jolly joker from Jakarta (or is that the dashing djinn from djakarta?) sent me a link to a nice little synopsis of the Austronesian language family. From someone else I received a link to a page on the evolution of alphabets. If this last link has been mentioned before, I apologise for not giving credit where due. I am so miserably bereft of self-esteem that I shall scavenge some by requiring any interested in either of the above links to visit my site, in order to inflate its traffic statistics. http://maxqnz.com/References.html