Talk:Abenaki language

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[edit] Need more info

Well, I've started work on Abenaki. I live in an area formerly inhabited by western Abenaki speakers.

The Cowasuck site is clearly put together by somebody with very little knowledge of structural linguistics. (Seem to be a lot of those sites. The primary tutorial for Aragonese is just as bad.) I'm likely to be busy tomorrow, but I'll try to get some more information soon. I'm gonna try to work on several incomplete language pages at once (already working on Aragonese, Abenaki, and Iberian), so it may take a bit. If anybody has any better links, or better yet, wants to add stuff themselves, I'd be grateful.

[edit] Phonology question

Does <o> really represent a dipthong /oʊ/ or /əʊ/, as in English? I would have expected /o/ or /ɔ/--especially given that /ow/ is apparently a separate phoneme, and [ow] and [oʊ] would be pretty much impossible to distinguish, I would think. Anyone know? --Miskwito 03:22, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

No idea. íslenskur fellibylur #12 _(samtal) 21:12, 29 November 2006 (UTC)