| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 11, 2004, 4:33 |
Emily wrote:> Two have prenasalized stops [but no nasals] > 8. HAKKA [ HAK ] : 33.000.000 in half the world (PRC, Brunei, French > Guiana, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Singapore, > Suriname, ROC, Thailand... etc.); Sino-Tibetan, ChineseAny idea or info on how that happened? AFAIK other Chinese languages have /m n N/ for sure initially, sometimes as coda. Presumably Sino-Tibetan had */m n N/ too????
| Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> | |
| Emily Zilch <emily0@...> | Hakka |