Re: Caste Languages
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 21, 2002, 6:45 |
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Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> Unless we have remarkably similar dreams, I believe that there is such a
> language. It is called Chukchi, and is spoken in Eastern Siberia.
I seem to remember that some Native American languages had similar
differences.
> I can't begin to fathom which phonological processes that lie behind such
> different realizations of the same phoneme.
Well, the /k/-/ts/ variation makes sense if women do use [k] before back
vowels, so that for women there was a /k/ -> /ts/ change before front
vowels, and men lacked that change. "Tsts" is a bit odder.
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