From: Exu Yangi
Message: 34410
Date: 2004-10-02
>From: Harald Hammarstr�m <haha2581@...>Mulwi is a Chadic language (related to Mulgu, I believe) spoken in the aread
>
> > It is a _fact_ that not one language has been identified by you or
> > anyone showing an exclusive use of non-lexical vowels. Not one. It's
> > also common sense that it would be practically impossible to do so.
> >
> > I'm being very generous in calling it a "rare" situation in order to
> > leave possibility for such a language to exist. So far it actually
> > doesn't appear to even exist.
>
>Apart from Caucasian languages, Jaqaru (in South America) is said to have
>few vowels, and a non-semitic language Mulwi somewhere in Africa (I forget
>where) as well. It might be worth checking them - unfortunately my library
>(Gothenburg University) does not have the bibliographic resources for
>those two lgs.
>
>/Harald