Oh WOW! I didn't even know that there was a writing system for Yoruba. I
thought it just used the Latin alphabet. Thanks alot for this!

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:
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> Giving him the benefit of the doubt by supposing he only meant "speech
sounds," English has (under the usual analysis) 43 phonemes. And that's
hardly an excessively large number.
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> The guy is simply a conlang hobbyist who has no more claim on our
attention than any other.
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> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Don Osborn dzo@...
> To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 9:37:45 AM
> Subject: Re: "FaYe" - a proposed new script for Yoruba
>
> Not sure what to make of that, Peter. It may be that some research in
> perception/cognitio n tells us something about individual human
> abilities to process and distinguish "unique sounds" (though that
> needs definig!).
>
> Such as for instance that research has found that humans can retain an
> oral string of about 7 digits plus or minus. It's a question of
> short-term memory. That fact says nothing about which digits (of
> course) nor does it imply anything about our capacity to memorize
> longer strings of digits.
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> Similarly, the info about 34 sounds may relate to something but not
> have any implications for the number of phonemes we can distinguish,
> nor for that matter the optimal number of characters in a script.
>
> But I would be interested to know more if anyone can clarify.
>
> Don
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> --- In qalam@... com, "Peter T. Daniels" grammatim@ ..>
wrote:
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> > Do you agree with the inventor that "humans can only delineate
> between about 34 unique sounds"?
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> > --
> > Peter T. Daniels grammatim@ .
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> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Don Osborn dzo@
> > To: qalam@... com
> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:56:47 PM
> > Subject: "FaYe" - a proposed new script for Yoruba
> >
> > I think I've written before that Africa is a continent of many new
> > alphabets. One I just recently learned of on the Yoruba language &
ICT
> > board* is called FaYe, and was developed by Remi-Niyi Alaran.
> >
> > See: Ijebu Drums blog, Tuesday, September 04, 2007, "The Yoruba FaYe
> > writing system" http://ijebudrums. blogspot. com/
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> > Don
> >
> > * http://www.quicktop ic.com/15/ H/KKgbRqJUAR8 message 317
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