User talk:Hbrug/Audios

Also Mon?

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)

True (02:45) =D Hbrug 09:54, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVw9iyq59zo

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)