Re: Laryngeals in Amhanara.

Nothing strange here. Both final h and IIRC final ? has induced
falling tone in the history of Sino-Tibetan and other Asian languages.
You should find info if you Google for "tonogenesis" and "laryngeal
features".

2008/3/25, Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>:
> In the Goshute dialect of Shoshoni (Uto-Aztecan), falling pitch corresponds
> to a medial glottal stop in other dialects. The word for 'ghost' in Goshute
> is [tθóàpʰ], while its cognate in Western Shoshoni is [tsoʔapʰ] (both are
> disyllabic forms). In practice, there is plenty of pitch movement and creaky
> voice in Western Shoshoni as well, but the glottal stop is still present. In
> Goshute it's gone completely.
>
> In Third Mesa Hopi (also Uto-Aztecan), a falling tone corresponds to
> syllable-final aspiration in First Mesa Hopi. This tone is confined to
> syllables containing a long vowel or syllables closed by a sonorant. As I
> recall, the current thinking is that in earlier Hopi, such syllables were
> closed by a voiceless sonorant or /h/.
>
> Looking in Wikipedia (the fount of all knowledge), I see that Kickapoo, an
> Algonkian language, developed low tone on vowels followed by /h/.
>
> So there are a few examples to think about.
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> wrote:
>
> > Den 25. mar. 2008 kl. 14.49 skreiv Dirk Elzinga:
> >
> > > You could consider changing them into tones ...
> >
> > Do you have a particular natlang pattern in mind?
> >
> > LEF
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Miapimoquitch: Tcf Pt*p+++12,4(c)v(v/c) W* Mf+++h+++t*a2c*g*n4 Sf++++argh
> Lc++d++600
>

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/ BP

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