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Re: THEORY: clicks

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, October 7, 2002, 10:45
Eamon Graham scripsit:

> 1. Has anyone ever used clicks in their conlangs?
And Rosta's Livagian, for one.
> 2. I only know of a few African languages that have clicks; are > there others outside of Africa?
No. Besides the Khoi-San languages of southern Africa, and a few neighboring Bantu languages that have certainly borrowed clicks from them (Zulu and Xhosa, e.g.), there remain two or three languages from further north that may or may not be related to Khoi-San. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com Unified Gaelic in Cyrillic script! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Celticonlang