Re: dating of aryans

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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: dating of aryans


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> --- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > However, what is complex about the phonology of
> > KhoiSan?
> >
> > If you are alluding to 'clicks', there is nothing
> > complex about them either.
> > Or tones.
>
> Wikipedia
> Khoisan languages are best known for their use of
> click consonants as phonemes. These are written with
> letters such as ǃ and ǂ. The
> Juǀʼhoan language has some 30 click
> consonants, not counting clusters, among perhaps 90
> phonemes, which include strident and pharyngealized
> vowels and four tones. The ǃXóõ and ǂHõã
> languages are similarly complex.
>
> Seems pretty complex to me

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I will be back to you on this.


Patrick

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