Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Matt Trinsic <trinsic@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 2:02 |
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Mark,
Okaikiar sounds interesting. Is there anywhere online to see a
description or more information on it? I have always been fascinated by
syllabaries, how does yours work? Coincidentally. I've just returned
from a weekend trip during which I decided to add a voiced TH/
non-voiced Th distinction to slaalehg ihkreen, as most of the other
phonemes did make that distinction.
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> Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 21:47:46 -0400
> From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
> Subject: Phoneme winnowing continues
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> Well, Okaikiar has just lost the D/T and S/Z distinctions, since it
> had no other pairs of phonemes distinguished only by voice. I
> decided that the distinction just doesn't matter to the Okaikiarar(*) ear,
> much the way aspiration doesn't matter to that of an English-speaker.
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> Plus, it's still a little large for a fully syllabic writing system.
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> Work continues. :)
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> -Mark
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