Talk:Buyang language

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Voiceless Sonorants

If anyone has a good way of putting the little circle under the symbols for sonorants and vowels, I'm all ears. The IPA template is just not very usable for this. (Taivo (talk) 02:37, 12 February 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Consonants

I have to ask, this isn't some positivistic allophone inventory, is it? Or an underfilled inventory with only "example sounds" from some series included? Labialization seems to be going a bit too randomly all over the place… --Tropylium (talk) 23:15, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is a typical East Asian inventory of initials, so "allophonic" is not relevant. In any case, Wikipedia prohibits original research, so we don't "evaluate" the sources, just present the facts as they are in the sources. But based on the inventories of initials in other Tai languages, this is not an unusual inventory. (Taivo (talk) 03:39, 10 May 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Sure seems full of holes anyway. Looking at our articles on Dong, Tai Lü or Shan it also seems to contain a lot more 2ndarily articulated consonants. But yes, it's not our place to do re-analysis or the like, just checking that those weren't eg. supposed to be clusters… --Tropylium (talk) 19:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]