Re: OT: [Q] is a vowel?! (was Re: Articulatory phonetics (was Re: THEORY: unergative))

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>:
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>>Merhaba!
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>>The result of reading Herman Miller's post
>>http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?
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>A2=ind0402d&L=conlang&F=&S=&P=5802
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>>makes me want to reform XS. I mean, who's ever heard of spelling a vowel as
>>a consonant except in...XS?! Even English didn't get it this wrong...
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>Welsh comes to mind ...
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Well, /w/ is almost a vowel - though obviously, |v| would be better -
conform to the one true Roman alphabet!

I suppose the Welsh orthography was invented before |v| and |u| were
differentiated - and Welsh was using |u| and, I suppose |v|, for [i](why
- can anyone tell me?)

Thus, for the [u] sound, Welsh had to use a different letter(was it a
double |u| originally?), and of course, had to use |f| for [v].

Welsh has the best orthography in the world.

Ydy y Gymraeg yr iaith gorau! (Yes, some probably ungrammatical Welsh
for all you fans of the language)