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I just thought of another consonant to be added
to this discussion: another nasal consonant: "ng". We could write it
~n.
Regards,
Stefo
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Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 1:19
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Subject: [Ladekwa] another sound
scheme
Rick,
Here's another possible sound scheme.
There are 96 classifiers. One way to get exactly 96 syllables is
to use 12 initials with 8 finals. The 12 initials are all unvoiced,
allowing the voiced counterparts to be the modifiers. The initials are
c, f, s, k, p, t, plus kl, kr, pl, pr, tl, tr. The 8 finals are a, e, i,
o, u, aw, ay, oy.
The biggest difference here is the consonant
clusters and especially "tl" (and "dl"), which are common enough in Slavic and
some non-Indo-European languages.
I think this would result in a low,
possibly minimal number of tongue-twisters.
Steven
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