Re: language origin, language evolution, evolutionary mutation

From: Yago Campos (s.campos.l_at_esade.edu)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: 16 Sep 2004 10:32:18 -0700

ronish20@bezeqint.net (Yair Shimron) wrote in message news:<5a550450.0409141026.5c205b0f@posting.google.com>...
> -- A minority of the worlds' languages has laryngeal and pharyngeal
> speech sounds. Ancient languages had more. There is a proven process
> of weakening of these sounds, and languages loose them continually. No
> language that does not have such sounds has ever invented or produced
> new such sounds. They must have come from the only source that has
> ever existed ? from the throaty expressive voices of the ancient
> hominids.

doesn't Wu chinese have some weird glottal sounds which Middle Chinese didn't have?

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