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Re: A new Indo-European subfamily in China

From:Marcus Smith <smithma@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 5, 2000, 4:03
Roger Mills wrote:

> >Here's the Ethnologue entry for the language in question: > > > >TSAT (UTSAT, UTSET, HUIHUI, HUI, HAINAN CHAM) [HUQ] 4,500 (1991 I. >Maddieson). >(snip) > Very interesting. I'll have to look thru Ethnologue again, to see >if there's a bibliographic ref. to Maddieson. I wonder if s/he is SIL-- >their people get into some really off-beat places, though I can't imagine >Viet Nam is terribly eager to let them in.
Ian Maddieson is not a part of SIL. He is a phonetics professor at Berkeley, as of this year. Last year he was still at UCLA, and I worked for him on a small project. He travels the world looking for cool sounds. =============================== Marcus Smith AIM: Anaakoot "When you lose a language, it's like dropping a bomb on a museum." -- Kenneth Hale ===============================