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Encyclopedia > Damin

A secret language spoken in the Gulf of Carpentaria used in men's initiation rites. Damin is noted for being the only click language outside of the Khoisan language group spoken in Africa. Damin is a compression of the Lardil language. One word in Damin can substitute for several words in Lardil. Damin is now an extinct language. Thre are no surviving speakers. This article is about the Khoisan ethnic group. ... Africa is the largest of the three great southward projections from the main mass of the Earths surface. ...


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the ceremonial language Damin (0 words)
Damin plainly involves the same semantic and grammatical system as Lardil, although lexical representation is at a more generic level; despite the phonological differences it is essentially a further variety of the Lardil language, rather than being any sort of separate language.
Damin is nearly unique in being an invented language phonologically distinct from the one on which it is based, but with sounds found nowhere else in the world, Professor Hale said.
Theoretically, Damin can be learned in just a day because it uses abstract names for families of concepts, so for example, the 19 Lardil pronouns are replaced by just two in Damin- one to describe any set that includes the speaker and one for a set that does not.
DAMIN Sales - Home (112 words)
Damin Sales represents fine electrical manufacturers in New York and New Jersery Metro Area.
Damin was incorporated in October 1973 resulting from a merger of two long-standing
Our focus is to thoroughly cover all electrical wholesalers with emphasis
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