Re: Betreft: Re: Lip-plates

"Anthony M. Miles" wrote:
> I have the Cambridge Language Surveys' _The languages of Australia_ by Dixon
> here with me. The  Lardil tribe of Mornington Island speak Lardil, but until
> 'recently' also spoke a secret language called Damin. Damin possessed four
> nasalized clicks, an ingressive lateral fricative, a glottalized velar stop,
> an ejective bilabial stop, a fourth vowel, and used length as a
> non-contrastive feature. None of these appear in Lardil. Lardil has nineteen
> pronouns and several demonstratives; Damin has a dinstinction between 'ego'
> and 'other', lacking even first, second, and third person pronouns. The
> grammatical structure, however, is identical to Lardil.
Which is why it is believed that it is an artificial language.  There
is, in fact, a tradition which says that it was invented.  A URL on it:
http://www.rick.harrison.net/langlab/damin.html

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