Re: Degaspregos
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 2:16 |
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Quoting Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:
> > Well... if you're in my shoes, with a conlang that has 27 consonants
> > and 9 vowels, PLUS vowel length, nasalization, and (irregular)
> > pitch accent,
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> He'd REALLY hate graavgaaln then. I have 52 consonants
> and 24 vowels!
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.
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