SV: [tied] Let dogs have their day too

From: Harald Hammarstrom
Message: 16244
Date: 2002-10-14

Thanks Piotr. I just double checked where I got my information from
(African Languages Heine/Nurse) and it
says exactly what you are saying - I just read and recalled it sloppily
earlier.
best wishes Harald
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Från: Piotr Gasiorowski [mailto:piotr.gasiorowski@...]
Skickat: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:17 PM
Till: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Ämne: Re: [tied] Let dogs have their day too

Even the monophyletic status of South African Khoisan without
Hadza and Sandawe (both in Tanzania) is widely
questioned. Khoisan may be more realistically treated as a
Sprachbund involving perhaps three different families whose
relationship to one another is unclear. Those who assign
Hadza and Sandawe to Khoisan classify them as coordinate
sister branches of the whole South Africal phylum. The main
reason for adding them to Khoisan is that they have clicks
and are not otherwise classifiable (not even as related to
each other). However, the Nguni branch of Bantu is also rich
in clicks, and they are found in one South Cushitic language
(Dahalo, in Kenya), so the mere existence of click
phonemes cannot be considered a family diagnostic. The