One topic that crosses a number of hyperstitional threads already initiated here is that of decimal phoneticism.
This topic seems indispensable to numogrammatics, qabbalism, lemurology, vowelless alphabets and other recent discussions.
Stillwell’s influential ethnographic analysis of Nma numeracy, subsequently developed by Horowitz, led to a search for the common protohuman roots of counting and speech. Stillwell hypothesized that a lost ‘Muvian’ culture had existed in which each numeral had a true name (although based on sounds intractable to modern human physiology). The ‘source words’ derived from this ‘Ur-Nma’ culture provided the names of the decimal numerals and basic morphological components of the entire Mu Nma language (Munumese).
Stillwell’s reconstruction of Nma sorcery was based on the insight that ‘the forty-five calls’ or names of the Lemurs (as listed within Vysparov’s Pandemonium Matrix) were systematically synthesized from this lost decimal phoneticism. Tzikvik worm sorcery with its rites of the (45) ‘lemu’ further attests to the basic soundness of this hypothesis.
Stillwell/Horowitz attribute sonic values as follows:
[0] Voweloid silence. Linked by Stillwell to the unvoiced Munumese quasiphonic particle ‘eiaoung,’ the ‘silent whisper of the ulterior depths.’
[1] Linked by Stillwell to the Munumese quasiphonic particle ‘gl,’ emanating from the sublaryngeal region (the Horowitzean ‘collapsed gargle’ or ‘glottal spasm,’ a relic from lost gilled/gulping life-forms).
[2] Linked by Stillwell to the Munumese quasiphonic particle ‘dt’ (the Horowitzean ‘imploded fricative/fractured plosive’).
[3] Linked by Stillwell to the Munumese quasiphonic particle ‘zx.’ It designates the ‘buzz-cutter’ sonics which Horowitz describes as a ‘swarming insectoid reversion within mammalian vocality.’ Implicates: x, cs, czs, z, zz … hissing.
[4] Linked by Stillwell to the Munumese quasiphonic particle ‘skr,’ which Horowitz identifies as an anthropo-reptiloid precursor to the qabbalistic ‘hard resh.’ Implicates: sk, sc, kr … croaking.
[5] Linked by Stillwell to the Munumese quasiphonic particle ‘ktt’ (the Horowitzean ‘parvocal tic’).
[6] Linked by Stillwell to the Munumese quasiphonic particle ‘tch,’ approximating to the interphoneme ‘dzch/tj.’
[7] Linked by Stillwell to the Munumese quasiphonic particle ‘pb’ (the Horowitzean ‘compounded plosive’). Implicates: bubbling.
[8] Linked by Stillwell to the Munumese quasiphonic particle ‘mnm,’ the diffuse subvocal hum that Horowitz links to the ‘proto-originary enunciation’ Oumn. Implicates: humming.
[9] Linked by Stillwell to the Munumese quasiphonic particle ‘tn,’ which Horowitz describes as ‘the ultimate unutterable mystery of vocal nullity.’
I'm wondering how, if at all, the Lemurs intersect with African click languages
Joanna Mountain suggests that "Khoisan languages of southern Africa have a putative history of considerable time depth and are spoken by Khoi and San populations. San carry the deepest known gene lineages. Intriguingly, while the Hadzane language of the Hadabe (Hadza) of East Africa shares click consonants with Khoisan, the historical relationship between these languages has remained enigmatic. Over the past century a minority of linguists has suggested that click consonants are preserved elements of human language tracing to the common ancestral population of extant humans, or earlier. Evidence supporting this hypothesis, however, has been scant. We present Y chromosome and mtDNA data indicating that San and Hadzabe are among the most highly divergent of human populations. Both DNA segments independently reveal variation consistent with the hypothesis that all living humans descend from speakers of a click language."
Posted by: steve_hyperdub at August 15, 2004 07:20 PMthis point obviously key -
I myself was wondering where the kl sound particle fit with the system - though I was thinking clucking not clicking : )
am still looking for Horowitzian material on this question
wondering what the Ur aspect is of African click language - is it the consonants themselves or the rhythmic clusters? - guess Hyper-C have a take on this.