Re: Announcement: New auxlang "Choton"
From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
Date: | Saturday, October 9, 2004, 18:43 |
Andreas Johansson wrote:
> 9 nine vowel phonemes in the standard? Assuming vowel length not to be phonemic,
> I count ten; /i y e 2 E a 8 o u au/. I guess you wouldn't recognize /au/?
No I wouldn't. And what's more it's /a8/ for some people.
If it existed in more than a handful foreign words I might
consider it monophonemic, with hesitation.
I have /e8/ too, BTW.
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