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Re: Degaspregos

From:Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>
Date:Thursday, December 13, 2001, 18:48
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:16:53 -0600, Thomas R. Wier
<trwier@...> wrote:

>Quoting Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:
>I wonder how frequent that is, having both lots of >consonants and lots of vowels. I suspect that it isn't; >the North-West Caucasian languages are famed for their >consonant inventories, often having, like, 80 distinct >consonant phonemes. Yet they are also famed for their >dearth of vowels: the usual claim is two phonological >vowels /a/ and /@/ for most of them.
However, some of the (North-) East Caucasian langs are said to have 70+ consonants and 20+ vowels... Basilius -