Re: New H/G lang?

R. Nierse scripsit:

> Very realistic. You don't need many vowels when you have a lot of
> consonants. There is a (Caucasian) natlang with only two vowels, being
> different only in high vs. low (@ vs a).
Indeed, although the phonology of Mandarin is constructible in several
ways, one scheme reads it as having only /@/ and /a/ and zero,
plus three glides /w/ and /j/ and /y<glide>/ (I forget the ASCII IPA
for this, but it's inverted h in real IPA).

Details on request.

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