Re: Tit'xka (Pretty Long Post)

Frank George Valoczy wrote:

> > 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)
>
Actually, I think it was Ubykh.
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