Re: CHAT: Rare Phonetics

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:26:50PM +0200, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Danny Wier <dawier@...> writes:
> > Only Khoisan language I've ever heard was from the movie _The Gods Must Be
> > Crazy_ (I think it was Nama).  !Xou or !Xu -- I really thing they're different
> > spellings of the same thing -- doesn't just have clicks.  It has aspirated
> > clicks, affricate clicks, prenasal clicks, sibilantized clicks, glottalized
> > clicks, voiced clicks, labialized clicks...
>
> Wow!!  I knew !Xu~ was weird but now I'd really love to listen to that!
>
> But for the start, I don't know whether I posted this link already, so
> please excuse a potential redundancy, here is an example of the
> Khoisan language Ju|'hoansi:
>
> http://ling.ohio-state.edu/~amiller/juspeech.html
That's pretty cool. I read an interesting book on that same people for
anthropology.

> And I found very strange similarities with Spanish vocabulary:
>
>   e   = and
>   mi  = I, my, me
>   ba  = father
Well, words starting with /m/ for 1p pronouns are present in many seemingly
unrelated languages, as are words such as /ba/ /pa/ /ta/ /da/ etc. for
"father". Cool, huh? :)

> PS: And the problem with searching the Web for !Xu~ is that the search
> engines are simply to brain-dead to understand what I really mean that
> very sequence of characters. :-(
Yeah, that is sad.

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