Re: rotokas; practical syllabarology; et alia

Mike Ellis wrote:
> ... where it says that the s sound only occurs before i!
Hmm ... sounds suspiciously like {s} is actually an allophone of /t/.
That would explain why /s/ isn't usually listed as a phoneme.

> The 350 might have been a typo for "35".
:-)  Well, for one thing, it specifically said that Hawaiian, at 182
syllables, had the fewest syllables.  Secondly, that site does also say
that vowels in Rotokas can be long, and (C)V(:) would work out to 70
(7*5*2).  I'm wondering if some of the vowel sequences might not've been
being counted as diphthongs?

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