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Re: Consonants and sonorant as vowels

From:julien eychenne <eychenne.j@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 2, 2002, 14:18
>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.