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Re: Cliks

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, March 24, 2003, 10:57
Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Andreas Johansson scripsit: > > > I don't understand why independent innovation should be so unlikely? > Surely > > there's plenty of cases where unrelated languages have acquired > more-or-less > > exotic sounds independently? > > The mystery of clicks is that nobody can figure out how they could have > resulted > from a reasonable sound-change in some other language.
Ah. The article in question apparently thought they came from lexicalization of originally extraphonemomic sounds used in hunting; if that's reasonable assumption, it may have occured more than once. Andreas