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on 4/21/02 10:31 PM, Rex May - Baloo at rmay@hidden.email wrote: > Wait. You could also have iy and uy, increasing your vowel combos to 20, > for 400 possibles. If you reduced your CC's to affricate forms, that is, > P(F)V(V), you could have the 6 C's plus ts, tc, dj, dz, or ten, times 20 > V(V)'s, or 200 pivor. I say this to anticipate objections to the esthetics > of jb, etc., and also because it keeps them all _beginning_ with a plosive. It just struck me that it wd be especially appropriate to allow the 4 affricates above, because they could all have a letter assigned to them in the future, and, unlike the ck, jb, etc., they are often regarded as a single phoneme anyway. Tc and Dj all over the place, ts in German, Russian, etc, and dz in Mandarin. >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/