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Re: Isolating languages

From:Ph. D. <phild@...>
Date:Saturday, May 28, 2005, 20:10
Steven Williams wrote:
> > --- Caleb Hines <Bachmusic1@...> schrieb: > > Are there many non-Sino-Tibetan isolangs? (I know > > English is one) > > For an isolating language that isn't Sino-Tibetan, I > think Yoruba is a good example, though I know next to > nothing of that language. > > > Are there many non-tonal isolangs? > > English. Other than that, I don't know. Are you > looking for monosyllablic non-tonal isolangs?
Aren't most Austronesian languages isolating and non-tonal? (although they're not monosyllabic) --Ph. D.

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Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>