----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Nierse
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: Clicks
John wrote:
>> I don't understand why independent innovation should be so unlikely?
Surely
>> there's plenty of cases where unrelated languages have acquired
more-or-less
>> exotic sounds independently?
>The mystery of clicks is that nobody can figure out how they could have
resulted
>from a reasonable sound-change in some other language.
>There is one example of clicks outside Africa: Damin.
>But OTOH, Damin was deliberately made exotic ...
>
>BTW, I take the article with a grain of salt.
>
Having looked it up - yes, it is incredibly weird. Well, at least some
Conlangs have got somewhere ;-)