Re: sabyuka : consonants, orthography, and a few things more

Yitzik wrote:

> To mark /@/ with |à| is not as strange as it may seem. At least
> I saw a report of a linguist who made a field study of Kuot
> language in Papua-New Guinea, and she did just this! Look at
> http://www.ling.su.se/staff/evali/kuot.htm
She's at my institution, so I've heard her speak IRL. (Wow...)
One somewhat ironic thing about this Kuot |à| thing is that her
(Eva's) long a's -- which is /A:/ in Swedish -- tend to become
[@:] or [V:] instead of [A:]. I've never heard anyone else talk
like that. So not only does she mark /@/ with |à|, she has it in
her own speech.

There might be some form of humour in this story if you look
close enough...

||| daniel

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