Re: CHAT: Rare Phonetics

First of all, the file is located at:

http://www.math.bas.bg/~peri/niches.pdf

I forgot that Google can search PDF documents now.

From: "Nik Taylor" <fortytwo@...>


| Danny Wier wrote:
| > The language with the most unique phones is !Xou, with 65.
|
| Is this just an orthographic variant of !Xu~, or are they different
| languages?

I have no idea.  It's either the same language, or two closely-related Khoisan
tongues that just happen to have massive phonologies.

(Most of those 65 consonants are clicks, naturally.)

~DaW~


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