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risto@hidden.email scripsit: > Symmetric. The name of that language could be abbreviated ":D" I took all the Wordnet synonym sets and generated a random trisyllabic root using the rule that all syllables except the last are in vowel harmony, in this case back-vowel harmony. (If the first syllable is Ca, there is low-vowel harmony; Ce or Ci gives front-vowel harmony, and Co or Cu gives back-vowel harmony.) It happened that the stem "xuxuxi" was assigned to "Esperanto", so I manually reassigned it to the name of the language. > It's not simply voicing contrast, the place and manner of articulation are > different. t is dental stop and d is alveolar tap or stop. In dialects d > is missing or /r/, but it was artificially reestablished in the standard > language. Historically it was voiced fricative /D/ before it and its kind > disappeared from Finnish. Ah, thanks. -- By Elbereth and Luthien the Fair, you shall cowan@hidden.email have neither the Ring nor me! --Frodo http://www.ccil.org/~cowan