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Re: Strange voices

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 21:20
Christophe Grandsire wrote at 2003-04-22 11:51:23 (+0200)
 > 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!!!!! ;)))))
 >
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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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>