Re: Some conlang questions

Hello,

> I read that Northwest Caucasian languages have the phonemes
> /a/ and /@/, but
> next to palatized consonants, the allophones /e/ and /i/ appear; the
> allophones /o/ and /u/ go with labiovelarized consonants. ~Danny~
That's quite true. That's why I used //'s in my original posts.

Peter, I'm having my phonetics exam tomorrow, so I'll go and ask :-) We
talked about it definitely in the course of our study, and our teacher
is definitely a big shot on Caucasian languages (his name's Sandro
Kodzasov, in case you follow Caucasian studies)

Pavel
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