Re: Two questions about Esperanto

On Jul 8, 2004, at 3:25 PM, Ray Brown wrote:
> But syllabic |r| is not a consonant. If a language uses the circumflex
> in
> something like its original use, i.e. to denote high pitch falling to
> low
> pitch on the same vowel, and it has /r/ as syllable nucleus, then of
> course we'd expect the circumflex to fall on |r| sometimes. But I was
> talking about true consonants. AFAIK Esperanto is the only language
> that
> pits circumflexes on true consonants.
> Ray

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