Re: Q (Caucasian Elf)
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 25, 2001, 11:18 |
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Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
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> > Whoah! 128 consonants, 132 if one also counts the local variants!
> > (Unless I have mis-counted, of course.) AFAIK, no natlang has that
> > many consonants. Not even Ubykh, which had 80 or so. I wonder how
> > they write them. LOTS of diacritics? Must look cool!
>
>IIRC, !Xu~ has 141 phonemes, of which ~54 are vowels. Ubykh has
>78 consonants, so !Xu~ would still beat it. Quaelits beats them
>all though. :)
Speaking of hugely many consonants, how many different consonants are there
in the IPA charts? I'm sure somebody at sometime must've been toying with
the idea of a lang that uses the all of them!
Andreas
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