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Isn't it interesting how different languages developed? Some more vowelized, some more consonantized, some melodic, some harsh-sounding; then there are languages such as Chinese: does that even have vowels and consonants? Lots of dependence on intonation, I understand. And, I was just thinking yesterday about the African languages that include clicking (can't think of what that's called), and how that might have developed, as in: perhaps people started using a particular group of clicks to mean, say, run; then added...uh, what to call it?--sounds that could be spelled, perhaps--for different pre-/suffixes, tenses, or something. Click-oo would mean running, click-ah would mean ran. [shrug]
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted wal-- katetx 06/25/09 02:50 PM Re: wal-- zmjezhd 06/26/09 01:15 AM Re: wal-- Jackie 06/26/09 02:06 AM
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