(23-04-2018, 05:43 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So are we in agreement that q not followed by o is less than 3% of the total in all transcriptions?
Because that is well within any possible transcription error rate. It's worth pointing out that in some Romance languages (French, Spanish) the qu rule is that the u is mute (with exceptions).
Although come to think of it, in Spanish it is usually followed by the vowels e or i.
Does anyone have an analysis of the q?? trigram?
Hi David,
do you mean an analysis of q?? in the VMS or in Spanish? Or in all Romance languages?
An obvious difference is that Romance q- is always followed by 'u' and then a second vowel. There only are 5 possible combinations: qua que qui quo quu (the last one occurs in Latin, but not in Italian).
On the other hand, VMS repeating words contain these 23 different combinations (14 of which are of the qo- type):
qai qck qct qee qek qet qka qke qko qoa qoc qod qoe qof qoi qok qol qoo qop qor qos qot qoy