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To: warchild9

you don’t want to go to a language with fewer consonants. too much sounds the same so the remedy is to just add syllables.


15 posted on 04/28/2013 11:50:33 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Or too few vowels. Convention with ancient Egyptian is to add a short “e.”

ex: kmt, their word for Egypt, consists of four pictographs, none of which represent vowels (some others do). So, one simply says “keh-met.”

Hawai’ian intrigues me because of the word constructions. And also why people who are native to Polynesia, a self-sufficient paradise, possess alleles suited for inhabitants of an arctic hell.

Language is often the clue to solving mysteries like that.


17 posted on 04/28/2013 12:14:43 PM PDT by warchild9
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