Re: Interlect: YAIAL, a personal view
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 7:21 |
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On 22 Apr 02, at 18:34, Raymond Brown wrote:
> Indeed, Esperanto managed to get a following although it has _both_ /x/ and
> /h/ as separate phonemes - something I would not myself advise.
Well, but /x/ is a rather marginal phoneme -- it's the least common of
all of them. (Do you know whether there exists a minimal pair at all?
Hang on, maybe hxoro "choir" - horo "hour", if I remember the first
word correctly.)
One could probably do away with it without too much confusion, since it
is so limited -- hxaoso, ehxo, hxoro and I can't think of any others
off-hand.
Cheers,
Philip
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