Re: A new Indo-European subfamily in China
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 4, 2000, 1:26 |
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E-Ching Ng tleiçeiç:
> There is a small but annoying distinction between tonal and
> pitch-accent languages, I believe. Tonal languages have a certain
> compulsory tone for every morpheme
Actually, syllable. Of course, most morphemes in the Sinitic languages
are one-syllable.
> and I suspect Serbo-Croatian is too.
Actually, Serbo-Croat does have falling and rising tones, but only in
stressed syllables, so it's actually a kind of combination.
> I am in the dark about Sino-Caucasian ... what are the Caucasian
> languages, and how certain is it that they're related to Sino-Tibetan?
The Caucasian languages are a group of languages, divided into 3
families, spoken in the Caucus mountains. I don't know anything about
the second question.
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