Re: word derivation in sabyuka (some principles)
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Monday, July 15, 2002, 9:49 |
|---|
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 22:16, Dan Sulani wrote:
<snip>
> I, personally, would have trouble imagining an 's' followed by
> a _retroflex_ 'r', such as are found in langs spoken in India.
> It's too far, IMHO, for the tongue-tip to travel quickly and efficiently.
> I would suppose that an 's' would show an allophonic
> retroflex form before a retroflex 'r'.
But in the Indian languages you have a nice palatal /s/, hence names like Sri
Lanka. I guess they worked that out, because in the Indian grammatical
traditions, /r/ _is_ retroflex.
Wesley Parish
>
> Dan Sulani
> -------------------------------------------------------
> likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a
>
> A word is an awesome thing.
--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Reply