“…It even brings back some memories to me: In 1969, at a time when only a few data existed, I had made a "communication-theoretical approach" to this language (Schuhmacher 1969). Now Copenhagen Linguistics Professor J~rgen Rischel, based on field notes from 1988 and later years, has given us an extensive presentation of the language of the "Spirits of the Yellow Leaves" (Phi Tong Luang) or Mlabri (i.e., the "Minor Mlabri" or "~-Mlabri"), a small tribe of hunter gatherers in northern ludoChina, first approached by Western people in the 1930s.…”