Re: Tit'xka (Pretty Long Post)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 29, 1998, 4:18 |
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Gustavo Eulalio wrote:
> On: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 17:49:49 -0600
> Eric Christopherson wrote:
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> > I was just wondering the other day, "are there any languages without
> > either /o/ or /u/, or without either /e/ or /i/?"
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> There's Tupi (a Brazilian indian language), which I'm begining
> to study now. It doesn't have /o/ nor /e/, but has /O/ and /E/.
> (According to the book I'm reading.)
But that's different, though. Lots of languages, relatively speaking,
don't have any phonemically distinctive set of central vowels, like
/o/, /e/, /O/, and /E/. What's strange is to lack all back vowels, or
all front vowels.
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