Re: On the design of an ideal language

On 5/3/06, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
> It's possible that this principle would lead you
> to ensure that words are highly distinct
> vis-a-vis their consonants, while the vowels
> are phonemic schwa that's realized as this
> or that phonetic vowel depending on the surrounding
> consonants.
Hey, it works for Ubykh, which (I believe) has only one phonemic
vowel, by some analyses. (And seventy-odd phonemic consonants, or
thereabouts.)

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>