Re: Tones: Evil incarnate? ;)

From: pierre.levy (pierre.levy11_at_wanadoo.fr)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:36:07 +0200

   I don't believe tones are Evil incarnate, but it seems to me that
there are more vowels in Chinese than
in Esperanto. Is it not so?

   On the other hand the languages
with only three vowels are very very
few.

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