Re: A "minimalist" phonology...

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?

Is /E @ V/ or /e @ O/ or the like found anywhere?  (Thats the
horizontal axis.)

Is phonemic vowel length independent from the number of basic vowels
or is it generally required that there be a certain amount of vowels
before this distinction is used?

**Henrik

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