At 8:09 pm +0200 21/4/01, Henrik Theiling wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> writes:
>> Caucasian language called Adyge, which has only central, unroynded vowels,
>> namely:
>> high /1/
>> mid /@/
>> low /a/
>
>Ah, I like that a lot. The language must sound very interesting.
>I assume the language is pronounced /ad1g@/ then?
Guess so - I don't have first-hand experience of the language.
>Is /E @ V/ or /e @ O/ or the like found anywhere? (Thats the
>horizontal axis.)
Not as far as I know as the only vocalic phonemes in a natlang.
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At 3:34 pm -0400 21/4/01, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Henrik Theiling wrote:
>> Ah, I like that a lot. The language must sound very interesting.
>> I assume the language is pronounced /ad1g@/ then?
>
>I would guess that the vowels have front and back allophones.
Quit likely - the three Arabic vowels have allophonic variations which have
caused problems when Arab words have been Romanized, e.g. Moslem ~ Muslim.
Ray.
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