Re: related features

What about Native American languages (I think of
Cherokee and Navajo offhand) that are both tonal and
agglutinative?

Clint


--- Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
> Florian Rivoal wrote:
> > * Tonal language tend to have many phonems, but
> strong phonological
> > constraints (as for mandarin, Shanghainese,
> cantonese, vietnamese, ...)
>
> Well, tones are generally evolved from lost
> consonants, evolving as the
> phonological constraints become tighter.
>
> > *inflecting langaguages have loose phonological
> constraints (IE,
> > tolkien languages)
>
> Inflecting languages tend to evolve from
> contractions and assimilations
> of earlier agglutinating structures.
>
> Altho, I believe there are some Bantu languages that
> are tonal, but
> still preserve the agglutinating structure of the
> Bantu family.
>
> > *tonal languages tend to be isolating (mandarin,
> Shanghainese,
> > cantonese, vietnamese, thai)
>
> Probably due to the fact that tones evolve from
> drastic phonological
> simplification, thus any inflections that might've
> existed will tend to
> get wiped out.
>
> > *aglutinating language tend to use SOV partern
> (japanese, korean, turkish)
>
> Bantu languages are generally SVO, yet
> agglutinating.
>
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