Re: Danish: tonal suffices?
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 1, 2000, 19:24 |
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At 03:42 01.7.2000 +0000, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
>So this time I was thinking of "Danish
>3000".
But the Quintessential Isolating Monosyllabic Language already exists:
Vietnamese! ;-) And tell me, was French 3000 polysynthetic?
Actually, I wonder if the loss of final syllables that Lars mentioned may
be inducing new prosodic patterns, a bit like the syllabification of final
sonorants and encliticization of the definite article did in Middle
Scandinavian.
BTW: we are many who are into future/alternate timeline versions of natlangs!
Bestum kvedjum,
/BP
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