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Re: The Salish sentence

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Sunday, January 4, 2004, 18:52
Robert Jung wrote:

> At www.indiana.edu/~gasser/L503/phonology.html > <http://www.indiana.edu/%7Egasser/L503/phonology.html>, I found: > > "iai uou aia uee ao aua aia ie > "`They had two flowers and four sails.' (Kiribatese) > " > "`then he had had in his possession a bunchberry plant' (Bella Coola)" > > Could someone give me the correct Salish sentence (word), in the > orthography? I got it with some weird symbols (optional hyphen...) in > those PDF files. >
Those weird symbols most likely are the orthography. Salish language can have some very strange phonologies.
> --Robert > >