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To: 1rudeboy
Cripes, so that's where all the vowels from the Balkans disappeared to...
9 posted on 09/05/2001 6:13:33 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite
It's more complicated than that. Some Lithuanian vowels come in three flavors, such as:

regular 'e'
'e' with a single dot above
'e' with a little "tail," and

some of the more common consonants in two, such as:

regular 's,'
's' with a small "v" on top.

You can find them in the 'Symbol' field in Word, but they don't transcribe to this forum for some reason. (That's why I chose a sentence without any for my example). Linguists study Lithuanian because its grammar hasn't changed that much, ever, and it is a living relative to Sanskrit. It is also 100% phonetic, no exceptions, and no 'q.'

10 posted on 09/06/2001 10:04:34 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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