Re: No Vowels?

In a message dated 6/30/2007 4:16:46 AM Central Daylight Time,
joefatula@INBOX.COM writes:


>   phonemes > phonetic realization
>   /tdzn/ > [tadzana]
>   /ktds/ > [katdasa]
>   /hrt/ > [harta]
>
> The vowel phones are entirely predictable from knowing just the
> consonant phonemes, which leads me to think that the vowels themselves
> are not phonetic.
Is [a] the only vowel used?

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