Re: Optimum number of symbols

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> Not so strange. As I recall, *p lenited in initial position to
> contemporary /h/, whereas in morphological alternations, it became
> a /b/ after nasal codas (the unmarked condition).
Actually, it was /p/ -> /P/ in all contexts except geminated and
post-nasally, then [P] -> [h] except before /M/.  Actually, /P/
sometimes became /w/ word-medially (later, /w/ was lost except before
/a/), I'm not sure exactly what determined when that happened, but verbs
with a final syllable of -u come from original -pu, which is why their
past tense is -tta (<-pita).

What I meant was, odd from a synchronic perspective.

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