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Datapoint Po-Ai / Consonant-Vowel Ratio

Discuss WALS Datapoint Po-Ai / Consonant-Vowel Ratio.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 at 9:41 pm by wals and is filed under Consonant-Vowel Ratio, Po-Ai. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  1. Alexander Elias Says:
    November 12th, 2019 at 9:45 pm

    Po-Ai (Fwâi) does not have a “low” C-V ratio. The correct number of consonant phonemes in Fwâi is either 26 (core phonemes) or 36 (counting loan phonemes). The correct number of vowel phonemes is 5. Therefore the correct ratio of C-V is either “moderately high” 5.2 (counting core phonemes only) or “high” 7.2 (counting loan phonemes).

    -Alex Elias

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