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Re: Illegal vowel combinations

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 7, 2001, 1:38
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 17:43:54 -0400, Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:

>J Y S Czhang wrote: >> ROTFLMAO ... *gaspin' for air* >> ::tries in vain to recall the names of some languages with even less vowels >> than Spanish:: > >Quechua for one. Classical Arabic has just /a i u/ with length, >Inukitut has /i a u/ with, I think, phonemic length, Early Uatakassí had >just /i a u/, Classical Uatakassí added phonemic length to those.
A number of Australian languages have just /a i u/: Dyirbal and Yidiny come to mind. Of my own languages, there's Chispa (with /a e i/) and Zirien (with /a e i u/, but also having phonemic tone and length).

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