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--- In txeqli@y..., Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: > Glottal stops are fine with me. That would give us 8x8 > or 64 vowel pairs, times six plosives, or 384 cmavo > from there, plus 36 CV's, or a total of 420 cmavo of the > shape PV(V). Is this math right? How did I come up with > so few before? I'm not sure it's a good idea to use every possible legal combination. Having lots of commonly-used words that look and sound almost identical can make it hard to communicate in any noisy environment. Personally, I love it when only perhaps a quarter of the available phonemes are used. Fortunately, I suspect you'll be able to get by with FAR fewer than 420 cmavo, so it should work itself out. Just a thought. Kevin