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Re: Strange voices

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 23:06
Christophe wrote:

> En réponse à Stone Gordonssen : > > > >"The mat on-it-sleeps a cat" would make perfect sense to a speaker of > >Hixkaryana (sp?) which is an OVS natlang. (Drat! I've already packed that > >book.) > > An OVS natlang?!!! Unpack that book immediately!!!!! ;))))) > > Seriously, does anybody have any link on that? >
No link, but the language is discussed in Comrie's "Language Universals and Ling. Typology". It's a Carib lang., spoken in Venezuela IIRC, and it's my impression other languages in the family may also be OVS