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Re: Minza spelling reform

From:John Vertical <johnvertical@...>
Date:Thursday, January 26, 2006, 21:07
Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > and the vowel > > system is simply batshit insane: there's EIGHT central vowels alone, > > apparently all with contrastive lenght! And here I thought Germanic >systems > > were byzantine. > >English aside, what's so byzantine about Germanic vowel systems?
Dutch and Danish also spring to mind as fairly complex, and most of the others have at least in some dialects some fairly creative complications. Standard Swedish and German I find comparatively simple, but they're still a notch up from the "standard" /i e a o u/. John Vertical

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