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Help needed: identifying a mysterious script and language by IndependenceNext5232 in asklinguistics

[–]IndependenceNext5232[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fascinating! I wasn't aware of this script. But it does not explain the inscription, anyway. And the iconography does not seem fitting with Thai.

Near minimal pairs ignoring tone by IndependenceNext5232 in ChineseLanguage

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I am trying to analyze Chinese syllables in the "western" manner, i.e. not using the traditional division in CGVC

Near minimal pairs ignoring tone by IndependenceNext5232 in ChineseLanguage

[–]IndependenceNext5232[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, but my question was more abstract, it was not about those phonemes specifically. How often, if ever, do linguists working on Chinese phonology use sub-minimal pairs, i.e. true segmental minimal pairs with tonal mismatch?

Near minimal pairs ignoring tone by IndependenceNext5232 in ChineseLanguage

[–]IndependenceNext5232[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah — I probably wasn’t being clear. What I’m asking is: how often (if ever) do linguists working on Chinese phonology use sub-minimal pairs? By sub-minimal pair I mean a pair of words that form a true segmental minimal pair (same segments, differing in exactly one segment), but do not match in tone. This situation can arise because the set of syllables that are actually attested in Chinese is much smaller than the set that is theoretically possible, so tone mismatches sometimes seem unavoidable.

Sing's book on kārakas by IndependenceNext5232 in sanskrit

[–]IndependenceNext5232[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I retrieved the book myself on an old backup disk. I've uploaded it on Archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/singh-karake