Transliteration and interpretation issues
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Transliteration and interpretation issues
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ReneZ wrote:I once heard, but Koen is the expert who can confirm/reject, that vowels are "recent" developments of human speech capabilities, and primitive languages did not have them. This would be leftovers of that, or more accurately, the sounds of "l" and "r" were originally equivalent to vowels. So in the past, babies said "mmmmmmmmmmm" rather than "mama" or "ah ah"? |
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