From: Mate Kapovic
Message: 33239
Date: 2004-06-15
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harald Hammarstrom" <haha2581@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Unreality of One-Vowel Systems (was: Bader's article
on *-os(y)o)
>> I am definitely with Jens here... Monovocalic theory cannot be excluded
on
>> typological grounds since some languages *can* (even if it is only a
>> possibility) be analyzed like that and also there is the standard
example -
>> if all the Khoisan languages died out before linguists came there, I bet
99%
>> of all linguists would swear that phonemic clics are absolutely
impossibile.
>Piotr mentioned something and I can elaborate a bit. Khoisan is NOT a
>genetic unity in the sense of Indo-European.
And who said it was?
Mate