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Re: more "discoveries" about the Techians

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 3:45
> people, the people are named after the language! The Nostratic root *t'ak- > means "to be fit, appropriate, suitable, proper", and the modern Tech word > is pronounced [t'&x] and means "proper (language)", because it is the
Oops, I meant t`, not t'. I'm still not getting my apostrophes straight. <'> means palatization and <`> means glottalization. I could've used <"> for the vowel if it was a schwa.