Re: [tied] Unreality...

--- 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? :)