| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 2, 2004, 21:03 |
Quoting Muke Tever <hotblack@...>:> << Phonemic tone is a widespread feature of Afroasiatic, appearing > regularly in the languages of the Omotic, Chadic, and Southern > and Eastern Cushitic divisions of the family. Only the > Boreafrasian subgroup (Semitic, Berber, and Egyptian [...]) has > entirely deleted tone. >> (p. 67)Boreafrasian? What a wonderful word! Andreas