Re: related features
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 31, 2002, 18:26 |
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At 13:01 31.10.2002 +0800, Florian Rivoal wrote:
>*inflecting langaguages have loose phonological constraints (IE, tolkien
>languages)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hey, Quenya has quite strict phonological constraints (e.g. no initial
clusters, no CR clusters, voiced stops only after nasals...)
At 08:24 31.10.2002 -0800, Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
>What about Native American languages (I think of
>Cherokee and Navajo offhand) that are both tonal and
>agglutinative?
Lots of those in Africa too!
/BP 8^)>
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