Re: Consonants and sonorant as vowels

>Yoruba: I've only skimmed my first and second year Yoruba texts, but Yoruba
>(the major language of Nigeria) uses high, middle, and low tones. Yoruba
>tones all seven vowels, as well as the letter n. I've also seen several
>words where n (with a tone) is the "vowel" of the first syllable, or the
>first letter followed by a consonant. (I only noticed the vowel-n in the
>first syllable.)
I downloaded this morning ipa help, from www.sil.org where I had heard those
vocalic consonants. They give examples from Landu, spoken in Sudan : it's a
tonal language, but there are words such as /sz=/ "shout". This is amazing to
see how languages can work.



>        I also have a pfd file "hdo_unusual.pdf", which is about unusual and
>long consonant clusters. I can't find it with a search engine, but I got it
>from a web site someone posted here. (Anyone else have that site?)
I would be interested in reading it. Could someone send me a copy of this
article, I unsuccessfully tried to get it using Google.

Thanks in advance.

Julien.