Re: CHAT: minimum phonemes, was Re: vrindo

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 20/06/99 19:12:53  ,  Paul Bennett =E9crit :

> This is all off the top of my head, but IIRC Hawaiian has 7C and 5V
>  (plus length distinction in vowels), something like:
> =20
>  h k p l ' w n
>  a e i o u
tahitian is 15 :
' f h k m n p r t v
a e i o u
but u and i are also SV w and y, and ti and hi are almost like japanese chi=20
and hi.

me-too =A7 :
tunu root phono are 12 : k m n p r s t a e i o u (1153 root words) - and=20
non-root phono are 2 : h ng + SV u and i written w and y.

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