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On 5/19/05, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > Okay, I think I've got it. What I've been calling consonants will be cwaba > (leaders) and non-consonants will be called faloba (followers). They are > therefore divorced from any relation to phonetic classification. So: > > kul ceqli vor dwa beza slihan cwaba hu befalo slihan faloba. > > All Ceqli words must be started by at least one leader followed by at least > one follower. ...With further notes, I hope, on what types of phoneme the "cwaba" and "faloba" classes consist of. > BTW, is "at least one" in this context logically equivalent to "one or > more"? I think it must be, but I'm not sure. Yes. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm