| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 27, 1999, 2:24 |
Herman Miller wrote:> Yes, some words are obviously English, and I recognized a couple of Chinese > words as well. See Jeffrey Henning's analysis of Furbish at > http://www.langmaker.com/furbish.htmRe: the stops in Furbish. Could they have been glottalics at one time? /p'/ and /g'/ are highly marked segments. Of course, maybe I'm overanalyzing something that's not meant to be taken seriously. :-) -- "[H]e axed after eggys: And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." -- William Caxton http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/W.html http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor