Re: Cliks

In a message dated 2003:03:21 06:00:12 AM, rnierse@ANWB.NL writes:

>For those of you interested in clicks, here is an article stating that
>clicks are remnants of the very first forms of human speech.
>
>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=388274
>
>So, anyone wanting to reconstruct the phonology of Pre-Proto-Nostratic
>(or something like that) has to deal with clicks! :)
    If this article was true-blue linguistics and not some kind of
Pre-Proto-Nostratic fringe linguistics theory, I would imagine that ejectives
and sibilants would be also be quite pronounced as well &, possibly, growled
creaky voicing.

    :: delights in imaginin' the "singing" *** of an ancient CroMagnon _Homo
Loquens_ bein' like an operatic German(ic)/Nordic DeathMetal singer doin' a
hybrid, PIE-conlang-translation medley of Kurt Weill, Tom Waits, Lou Reed and
Iggy Pop songs ;)

    *** - more like throatsingy snarl-growl-spit-&hiss-chanting -  ::

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