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.
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Marcus Smith
AIM: Anaakoot
"When you lose a language, it's like
dropping a bomb on a museum."
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