Re: Phonemic vowel and consonant length.

On Sunday 02 February 2003 9:04 am, Tristan wrote:
> On 2003.02.02 15:51 Steven Williams wrote:
> > I've a few questions that've been eating away at my soul for a while.
> > So...
> >
> > 1. I know Estonian has three degrees of phonemic vowel length, as did
> > a few dialects of Sanskrit. How common is this three-tiered vowel
> > length distinction? Are there any languages with _more_ than three
> > levels of length?
>
>And vice-versa: do languages with few
> vowels have a mere handful of consonants.
Absolutly not.  I mean, look at Ubykh. It has 2(3?) vowels, and around 80
consonants.

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