From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 27786
Date: 2003-11-28
>On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:35:17 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>Read: the latter.
>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").
>