Re: Linguistic Terminology
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 5, 1999, 20:16 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Some Polynesian languages have only unvoiced consonnants, and no other
> order.
As I replied to Kristian Jensen, their vowels are still voiced, so they
contain both phonations, they're just not contrastive. However. she
then pointed out Australian languages with no voiceless phonemes at all,
so there are languages with *only* voiced, but none with *only*
voiceless (even if the only voiced phonemes are vowels)
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