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

From:daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...>
Date:Friday, May 24, 2002, 16:47
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 -- danielandreasson @ swipnet.se | http://home.swipnet.se/escape