On Sun, 3 Jan 1999 15:23:09 -0800 Frank George Valoczy
<valoczy@...> writes:
>> Well, i seem to remember a language which died out a few years ago
>(but
>> was heavily documented by scientists, linguists, etc. and its last
>> speaker) which had many many many phonemicly different consonants,
>and
>> only one vowel - i think it was /a/ . If i remember correctly, it
>was
>> from the Caucasus region. And people a few hundred years ago (when
>it
>> was spoken by an entire ethnic group) had described it as "the sound
>of
>> marbles hitting the floor".
>Kamassian? (Uralic/Samoyedic/Sayan Samoyedic)
>-------ferke
>Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
It might have been, i don't remember the name...but i think it sounded
like that.
-Stephen (Steg)
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