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Re: [txeqli] BELI & KOFI

Title: Re: [txeqli] BELI & KOFI
on 2/27/02 6:19 AM, Ray Bergmann at rayber@hidden.email wrote:

Rex >> 1) permissible consonant clusters

I've been going by instinct so far.  All voiced or all unvoiced, or unvoiced
prededing voiced.  Worst clusters I've come up with is Bdomen (abdomen) and
Kfey (coffee)


Ray >> In Unish a schwa is understood to separate several consonants together so "bdomn" would be pronounced [b`dom`n] if it were Unish.  But actually the Unish words for "abdomen, belly, venter" and "coffee" are "BELI" and "KOFI".

In Tx as well I'm expecting schwa-buffering.  Another reason why I opted not to have a schwa phoneme.


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