Re: [tied] Unreality...

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 32963
Date: 2004-05-28

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...>
wrote:
> You're all hairsplitting... I should have written if there was no
Khoisan
> group (including Hadza and Sandawe), and the Nguni branch of Bantu
and Damin
> linguists would think that clics are impossibile. That is not the
point. The
> point is that clics, save for Damin, a secret language in
Australia, are not
> attested anywhere else than in the south of Africa. It *is*
possibile to
> imagine that all these language died out before we got to them.
And if it
> were so, nobody would except a reconstructed language with clics
because
> there is no such language.

And is there any evidence of a language with clicks ever eliminating
them completely? :)