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Re: What's your favorite sounding word in any language?

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Sunday, December 21, 2003, 15:53
At 21:41 20.12.2003, Christian Thalmann wrote:

> > PS: Where did Hungarian get all those unrelated vowels: /O/, /a:/, >/E/, /e:/? Why not /a/ or /e/? Where did they go? (Or did they ever exist??)
I read somewhere that some dialects still have /e/. I don't know about */E:/ though. /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /'Aestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)

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