Re: Betreft: Re: Initial clusters, was: Re: Russian orthography
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 20, 2000, 11:53 |
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At 18:22 02.2.2000 +0100, John Cowan wrote:
> > >Bella Coola
> > >qqs 'eye'
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>IIRC the only vowel in Bella Coola is a voiceless schwa, so at
>the *phonological* level it's all consonants. At the auditory
>level, it all sounds like whispering.
How does one shout in Bella Coola, then? :-)
Is it the received opinion that Bella Coola has no phonological vowels?
That's the subject of an old Holy War among IEnists, as you may know.
/BP
"Doubt grows with knowledge" -Goethe