Re: 5 phonemes, was: Another phonological extreme

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 22:05:43 +0200, daniel andreasson
<daniel.andreasson@...> wrote:

>I actually tried E the other day at work. Although I changed it to
>Schwa. /@: @ @ @:::: @ @:: @/ It worked amazingly well.
Details, please!!!

Actually, I meant schwa, too. But then I noticed that there are
fronted/palatal allophones like /i/ and /j/, and decided to simplify
the transcription.

This doesn't matter anyway. The 'deep' entities don't need to be
pronounced, and 'underlying' transcription is not equal to a
protolanguage (which I think had four vowels); yes, I'm already
working on proto-Ija-Miituuic :)

>The more
>humorous one of my cow-orkers liked it. He also asked if I had a
>website and I had to show it to him.
This one?

http://hem.passagen.se/noldo/rinya.html


Basilius