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Re: related features

From:Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
Date:Thursday, October 31, 2002, 16:25
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. > > -- > "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a > big dork or nerd, > you just have to find people who are dorky the same > way you are." - > overheard > ICQ: 18656696 > AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42
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