>From: Rob Haden <magwich78@...>
>
>Well, based on a cursory view of it, I'm skeptical of the rather high
>number of words that consist of only one vowel. IIRC, Sumerian is
>notorious for its apparent extreme homophony and/or homonymy, but I doubt
>that that was actually the case with the language.
As well you should be. This is the reason most Sumerian experts posit
tonality in the language.
Athey
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