Re: Illegal vowel combinations
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 7, 2001, 1:38 |
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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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