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Re: THEORY: clicks

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, April 5, 1999, 3:06
Danny Wier
> A *real* good example of a language that uses many clicks is the Khoisan > language !Xu~, which has a total of 141 consonants, clicks and > non-clicks together. It, I believe, holds the world record.
Actually, I think that !Xu~ has 141 *total* phonemes, vowels and consonants together. I know it has a total of 92 consonants, 47 clicks, and 45 non-clicks, so, if that 141 figure is correct, then there's 51 vowels (this is counting, I suspect, supersegmental features like length or nasalization). -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor