Posted on 01/29/2006 3:25:28 PM PST by mlc9852
PW: Thanks for the links. Information overload!
Both of you: Great conversation, but I have to go now.
Never noticed either (I don't have kids)
Greenberg, in "Eurasiatic", says that the r in Dvorak, with the diacritical over it, is one of the rarest sounds in the world, found only in Czech and, I forget, Gilyak or Chuckchee. He, of course, traces both of them back to the same diachronic process in Proto-EuroAsiatic.
I wonder if NC can even pronounce the *names* Of the languages JHG **analyzed**?!
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