Re: Degaspregos
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 13, 2001, 18:48 |
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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
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