Re: Uusisuom's influences
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 5:15 |
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At 10:31 am +0200 2/4/01, daniel andreasson wrote:
>Luca wrote:
[snip]
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>> While short/long vowels are not that rare amongst real langs,
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>And what's even worse about Finnish: the short/long distinction goes
>for both vowels and consonants, and it's *phonemic*! Aaarghs! :)
...and it appears that both are phonemic in Uusisuom also, if the doubled
vowels are consonants mean what they appear to mean. Tho there it seems it
is phonemic with some vowels but not others - whereas, at least Finnish is
consistent on this matter AFAIK.
Ray.
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