Re: THEORY: clicks
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 5, 1999, 3:06 |
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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).
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