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Just my curiosity, how do you know that they were short on vowels?
by obilgic 14y ago
Just my curiosity, how do you know that they were short on vowels?
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- mtts 14y agoI'm not the parent and I'm not very familiar with this specific case, but in general the number of vowels in the Latin alphabet is really only sufficient for, well, Latin, and for languages that have the same, rather limited, number of vowels or less. English, for example, has more than 20 vowels (according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology), but then English happens to be a language with a larger than average number of vowels. Turkish makes do with a mere 8, but even that is more than the Latin alphabet can accommodate (5)