Re: [tied] Re: septm [was: Caland [was -m (-n)?]]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:25:39 +0100 (MET), Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
<jer@...> wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:28:57 +0100, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>>
>> >On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:35:17 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
>> >wrote:
>> >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),
>>
>> Read: the latter.
>
>How did either of you decide this matter?

1) Omotic languages are generally tonal.
2) Most numbers have no diacritics on them, some have two accent marks in
the same word, suggesting a tonal system with the default (low) tone
unmarked.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...