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Conlangery #60: Syllable and Word Shapes

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The Importance of Phoneme Inventory in Linguistics

The characteristic deformation of English words borrowed into Japanese comes from the need to Meet a very strict set of rules on soul shape, which is on the low end of modest complexity. I think it's just simple syllables I think I think Hawaiian's one of the ones we can pretty safely say is simple. But it's also about phoneme inventory because there's no t there's no s there's but um And they can Those those things can interact a little bit. So right right deletions Epidemic vowels all sorts of funkiness can can come into play to solve the problem of illegal syllable shapes.

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