Re: OFF : updated tunu grammar

Fascinating!  The Tunuans have clearly found the secret of enforcing
language planning: threats of cannibalism.

> note that |w|, |y|, |ng| and |ny| never appear in root words. they appear
> as deriving affixes or pronouns only.
This reminds me of what I have read about Proto-Indo-European -- that
certain sounds (the ones traditionally reconstructed as /b/ /d/ /g/)
do not occur in affixes, only in roots.  This bizarre restriction is
one of the arguments for reconstrucing that series as /p'/ /t'/ /k'/
instead (ejectives); apparently in languages with ejectives, as highly
marked consonants they tend not to appear in affixes.

Then again, there's English, where the phoneme /D/ appears prety much
only in demonstratives and the definite pronoun.


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