Re: Brief Notice of Rogers Re: Moraic writing system

At 12:34 -0400 2005-08-07, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> > It's ambiguous. When I did Indo-European we used labiovelar for kw/gw.
>
>But now you're talking about West Africa, which has specialized the
>terminology in a direction relevant to its own phenomena.

I was only explaining my relation to the term "labiovelar".

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labiovelar
>
>Please don't cite Wikipedia as if it were authoritative on any topic.

I suspect that in saying that the term labiovelar is ambiguous as to
labial-velar on the one hand and labialized velar on the other, the
Wikipedia has supplied accurate and useful information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._Daniels may also have some
accurate facts in it. ;-)
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