Re: All of creation in Six and Seven

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

>> We must be dealing with some obsolete convention for transcribing

Ge'ez

> including the article -u. Come to think of it, Ge'ez doesn't even

have a

> grapheme /u:/ (nor a phoneme), so that must definitely be -Cu-u.

Here's a quotation from an encyclopaedic article on Ge'ez (by A.
Militarev) I've got at hand:

'The vocalism is represented by 7 phonemes: & (<*u,*i), ä (<*a), u
(<*u:), i(<*i:), a(<*a:), o(<*aw), e(<*ay)'

Sergei