From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Fri Dec  1 08:28:11 1995
Reply-To: BARRETO%VELAHF@ECCSA.TR.UNISYS.COM
Date: Fri Dec 1 08:28:11 1995
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From: Paulo Barreto <BARRETO%VELAHF@ECCSA.TR.UNISYS.COM>
Subject:      Re: buffer vowel
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To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
Status: OR
Message-ID: <D4_8NlDgo4E.A.-GG.8u0kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org>

And:
> Paolo:

Well, actually "Paulo".

And:
> I'll ask a straightforwarder question: which lgs have Lojban's 7
> vowel system (taking /%/ to be centred on central [I-])?

myself:
> How about Rumanian?

And:
> Do you know whether you can get 7-way minimal pairs (minimal
> septuples)? Is there some environment where all 7 vowels contrast,
> and the full brunt of the contrast is borne by vowel quality?
> [Speaking phonologically.]

Eeech, wait, I'm not a professional linguist, nor a Romanian language
teacher :-) You mean something like *{ba b\u{a} be bi b\^i bo bu} ?
My Romanian dictionary and grammar are not at hand by now, but looking
up them would take a lot of time, anyway.

And:
> I have no idea of the answer.

Hmm, I haven't either. Isn't there a Romanian lojbanist on the net?

co'o mi'e paulos.

    Paulo S. L. M. Barreto  --  Software Analyst  --  Unisys Brazil
    Standard disclaimer applies ("I do not speak for Unisys", etc.)
                       e'osai ko sarji la lojban.