Re[2]: [tied] Re: Unreality of One-Vowel Systems (was: Bader's

At 5:42:04 PM on Wednesday, May 26, 2004, Mate Kapovic
wrote:

[...]

> You can always pull another joker out :) Abkhaz has been
> analyzed as a system with no phonemic vowel.

I thought that was Kabardian, with Abkhaz having a (flawed)
analysis with only one phonemic vowel.

> I am definitely with Jens here... Monovocalic theory
> cannot be excluded on typological grounds since some
> languages *can* (even if it is only a possibility) be
> analyzed like that and also there is the standard example
> - if all the Khoisan languages died out before linguists
> came there, I bet 99% of all linguists would swear that
> phonemic clics are absolutely impossibile.

Damin?

Brian