--- Den sön 2010-02-14 skrev Anton Bjerke <anton_bjerke@...>:

> By the way, if I haven't introduced myself earlier, I'm a
> Phd-student of
> Helsinki University (Altaic linguistics), with an interest
> in Buddhist
> thought and language in a broad sense.

Is your mother-tongue Finnish or Swedish? Your name seems to indicate the latter, but you never know.

Anyhow, Non-Indoeuropean Finnish - like Pali, but unlike modern Indoeuropean Swedish - still makes a difference between short and long syllables, so Finns have and advantage over Swedes when it comes to pronouncing short vowel+whort consonant, as in "sata" - which happens to mean "one hundred" in both languages.

Gunnar

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