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Rob Speer wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:47:51PM -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > > <y> /O/ kly = Eng. <claw> > > I would find that extremely difficult to distinguish from 'o'. > I'm assuming that the Txeqli 'o' is not rounded into 'ou' as the English > 'o' is. [...] /o/ and /O/ coexist in Hokkien, and they sound very different to me ([o] and [O], no off-glide on the [o]). > I would also suggest that Txeqli's generally nice morphology should not > be messed up with digraphs, or with single letters representing > clusters. Do you consider affricates as clusters? (Not sure how this affects the morphology, in any case.) -- Mike Wright http://www.CoastalFog.net _______________________________________________________ "When they wired us humans up, they really should have labeled the wires--don't you think?" -- Ed