Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:
> > Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:
> > > > Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Pahawh Hmong is just an alphabet - it has eleven oral vowels and two
> > > > > nasal vowels. All the Hmong codas are implicit in the nucleus!
> > > >
> > > > No, it is not an alphabet. It is a sort of reverse abugida.
> > >
> > > You have me confused on two counts. If it's an abugida, what's the
> > > implicit vowel?
> >
> > IIRC each vowel letter has an implicit consonant, which is replaced by a
> > consonant letter placed beside it.
>
> It would have been more helpful to say, 'The implicit consonant is /k/.'

Well, perhaps if it hadn't been 1 am and I'd felt like climbing two
flights of stairs and back again, I might have done; but you'd obviously
just looked it up in a place where you could count the vowels and must
have seen that for yourself.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...