User talk:Hbrug/Audios
Latest comment: 12 years ago by Hbrug in topic Also Mon?
Also Mon?
[edit]Can you also find some Mon? It's very similar to Khmer, with lots of clusters similar to Old Chinese.
Also, Jarai and some of the other Vietnamese Central Highlands Malayo-Polynesian languages have lots of clusters, but maybe because they're corrupted from the more vowel-rich Polynesian ones (or is it the other way around)? 71.66.97.228 07:13, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- I added recordings from Mon and Jarai too. I think there are some trends in cluster reduction: Austronesian C1V1C2V2- generally corresponds to Mon-Khmer sesquisyllable C1C2V2 (which in Vietnamese is now C2'V2). Chinese C1C2V2 usually corresponds to Altaic C1V1C2, often plus some ending. Hbrug 07:29, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
And probably also click reduction a few tens of thousands of years before that! 71.66.97.228 07:58, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
Wow! It sounds like Hmong mixed with Vietnamese and Khmer! Who is the guy reciting this, and what does final "x" represent? 71.66.97.228 07:17, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- -x is the shang tone (上聲) of MC. The various codas (-s, -h, -ʔ) in OC have been reduced to tones in MC. Hbrug 07:29, 3 November 2011 (UTC)