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> Van: Danny Wier <dawier@...>
> Aan: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
> Onderwerp: Re: whoops, another question -- pharyngealized consonants
anyone?
> Datum: woensdag 6 oktober 1999 19:31
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> Whoa, glad you mentioned Ubyx! Sergei Starostin, the Russian linguist
whose
> got a lot of work in progress on various language families available for
> public digestion on the internet, wrote a paper (also available online!)
> about North Caucasian phonology (he's pretty liberal on language
> classifications; his Proto-Altaic reconstructions include Korean and
> Japanese data). The Northwest Caucasian languages especially have quite
> large consonant inventories (and tiny vowel systems!), but Ubyx sure
takes
> the cake. (It held the record before Khoisan languages like !Xu~ were
> discovered, but bear in mind Ubyx has no clicks.)
I've been searching for Sergei Starostin, but I haven't found a thing! Do
you have a URL? I'm very interested.
I would like to see the phon. inventory of !Xu~. Do you have it? Or better
said: do you want to type it for me?