Re: USAGE: syllables

Robert B Wilson sikyal:

> i kinsi rorotan, the sonority classes are:
> 1. fricatives
> 2. nasals and [r\]
> 3. [j] and [w]
> 4. vowels
No stops?

> and in kontoko they are:
> 1. fricatives
> 2. stops, nasals, [4] (< [l]), and [r\]
> 3. [j] and [w]
> 4. vowels
Fricatives are *less* sonorant than stops! I've never seen that before.
Very cool.

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