Re: Another phonological extreme, was: Nine

Rob Nierse wrote:
>Once I did a little study on Circassian, because I was thrilled by the
>sounds.
>I still remember the teacher being enthousiastic when he returned from
>fieldwork: he had founda phoneme not yet discovered before: I believe
>it was c^' and was in a word that meant "picking up from the ground sitting
>in the saddle of a riding horse".
>Most found him weird for being enthousiastic about discovering a sound,
>But I understood him.
    One semester I sat in on J.C.Catford's Caucasian seminar; he had just
returned from field work in the area.  Needless to say, he could pronounce
all those consonants. It made my brain, and throat, hurt.