Re: Polysynth Question
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 26, 2007, 1:06 |
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On 3/25/07, Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...> wrote:
> Has anyone done a polysynthetic lang with a small phoneme inventory? I'd like
> to see what you've done.
Miapimoquitch may qualify as polysynthetic, though my earlier post
about nouns, verbs and switch reference doesn't really show
polysynthesis. It has 12 consonant and 4 vowel phonemes (which also
doesn't really show in the examples I gave, since I gave them in a
more surface-oriented transcription). The consonants are: /p, t, ts,
k; m n ŋ; s, h; l; j, w/. The vowels are /i, a, u, ɨ/.
Dirk