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From: rdd@usa1.com (Aaron J. Dinkin)
Subject: Re: Mongolian, native languages (was Languages: Hard, Harder, Hardest)
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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:46:37 -0500
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In article <iyAl9nAy66CyEwHG@vision25.demon.co.uk>, Phil Hunt
<phil@vision25.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <chenrich-0808962329290001@ppp133.monmouth.com>, "Christopher
> J. Henrich" <chenrich@monmouth.com> writes
> >> And the pronunciation: standard French has 17 vowels (my own variety
> >> has 22)
> >> 
> >English has at least 15 vowel phonemes, if my memory serves.
> 
> Depends on your dialect. RP has 21. My idiolect has 20.

Fascinating - what are they?

(My 16 are /i I e E & @ V a u U o O A/ and the diphthongs /aU aI OI/.)

-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom

