does anything like pharyngealization appear in sino-tibetan languages besides qiangic and (maybe) old chinese? (yes - liangshan yi, for one. but it's highly eroded and pharyngealization could be relatively recent. is the origin of the contrast known?)
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if there are any ST languages with height-based vowel harmony in which the lower vowel is dominant (similar to chukchi)... retraction spreading seems like it could easily develop into such a system. might expand the search space a lil
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I still refuse to believe that Tibetan and Tangut are real, and not invented by conlangers
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tibetan is too simple to have been invented by conlangers, and tangut is too complicated. estonian, however, is jaan tallinn's conlang. after he got rich from skype he bought half of latvia and tricked the world into thinking his conlang was real
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