Re: Betreft: Re: Initial clusters, was: Re: Russian orthography

Rob Nierse wrote:

>
> Is it the received opinion that Bella Coola has no phonological vowels?
>
I'm not John and my Salishan collection was sold when I turned away
from Northwest Coast lgs but my recollection is that BC has at least
phonemic schwa and a lot of phonetic epenthetic vowels.  Similarly,
there is evidence, mostly unpublished, that Wakashan (at the
proto-level) had no more /a/ with, if memory serves, 12 phonetic vowels
determined by a complex set of insertion rules.
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Brad Coon
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