Re: Fluency Wish-List
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 19, 2000, 14:38 |
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At 15:47 18.4.2000 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
>Becoming tonal: most importantly, has to do with initial voiced stops >
>voiceless but with lowered tone or register. Same thing has been observed
>ongoing in other SE Asian langs. as well as historically in Thai, and
>Vietnamese and perhaps Chinese too.
Yep, Chinese to, and Tibetan and most other Tibeto-Burman
languages. Probably Korean also acquired tones this way, then lost them again.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson
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