What does 'phonemic' mean exactly?
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Brown" <ray.brown@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: Uusisuom's influences
> At 10:31 am +0200 2/4/01, daniel andreasson wrote:
> >Luca wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >> While short/long vowels are not that rare amongst real langs,
> >
> >And what's even worse about Finnish: the short/long distinction goes
> >for both vowels and consonants, and it's *phonemic*! Aaarghs! :)
>
> ...and it appears that both are phonemic in Uusisuom also, if the doubled
> vowels are consonants mean what they appear to mean. Tho there it seems
it
> is phonemic with some vowels but not others - whereas, at least Finnish is
> consistent on this matter AFAIK.
>
> Ray.
>
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