Re: OT: Origin of names (WAS: Re: Proto-Uralic?)

En réponse à wayne chevrier :


>Recent research shows that dolphins have names for each other(used to label
>their calls and to call young, etc.)
I've heard of that. I've also heard that studies showed the sounds used by
dolphins could really be classified as a language, with by themselves
meaningless "phonemes" which put together formed meaningful words, put
together to form sentences. We still don't understand the dolphin language
(or rather language*s*, because dialectical differences have already been
recognised), but we already know it's a complicated language, and many
scientists say it can convey abstract ideas too.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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