Re: Strange voices
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 21:20 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote at 2003-04-22 11:51:23 (+0200)
> En réponse à Stone Gordonssen :
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>
> >"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!!!!! ;)))))
>
Come on, Christophe, even I've heard of Hixkaryana. It's the standard
example of an OVS language. Weren't you paying attention when you
read Rick Morneau's essays? ;) Not that I know anything much _about_
it.
> Seriously, does anybody have any link on that?
>
Googling has uncovered only that it was discovered in the 1970s, and
has a very small number of speakers, in Brazil. Checking list
archives reveals that it is a Carib language, and that Pullum
dismisses the claim that it is the *only* OVS language in _The Great
Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax_.
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