Re: Cliks

Quoting Rob Nierse <rnierse@...>:

> 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! :)
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?

                                              Andreas

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