On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:35:17 +0000, tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
>Actually, what I wanted to draw attenton to was that in one
>language, "seven" and "eight" have moved the stress to the last
>syllable.
Well, what we have is one language (Anfillo), where the final vowel of 7, 8
and 10 is transcribed with an acute accent. I don't know where the
transcription comes from, I don't know if the acute stands for stress or
tone (more likely the former), and I don't know anything about the rules
regulating stress or tone in Anfillo. In fact, I don't know anything about
Anfillo, except that it is an Omotic language, which is "now almost
certainly extinct" (Richard J. Hayward, in "African Languages").
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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