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Re: Strange voices

From:Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 11:13
I heard of an OVS language in South America as well, about four or so years
ago, but I don't remember just where or when.

Sorry.

Wesley Parish

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 10:52 pm, you wrote:
> En réponse à Tristan McLeay : > >Surely you know of The Law of Natlangs Having Already Done it? :P > > Of course! But I had never heard the name of an actual OVS language :)) . I > had only heard of Malagasy, and that's a VOS language, not OVS :)) . > > > (I've > >heard about at least one of these languages... dunno if it's this one or > >not (I think the I'm thinking of is South American)... Apparently it's > >the least common word order, though. (Surprise, surprise)) > > LOL. I seem to remember (was it from Carlos Thompson?) that Colombian Sign > Language or some other sign languages from South America was OSV or OVS > (can't remember exactly). Is my memory completely defect? :)) Maybe that's > what you heard of... > > Christophe Grandsire. > > http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr > > You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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