| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 9:49 |
Staving Rob Nierse:>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! :)Magzhelyagon, which has clicks, is descended from Khangaþyagon, which does. However, the findings referred to in the article are consistent with the origin of clicks in Magzhelyagon, which was originally a hunting language. Pete