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color=#000000><FONT size=3>Dear Corpora colleagues, We have been reading
with great pleasure some of the theoretical discussions on the Corpora
net. We wonder what do you think of Esperanto? Is it an artificial language
from the viewpoint of phonetics? Is it possible to compare Esperanto with the
natural languages? Some linguists may say it is not possible to compare an
artificial language with a natural language. Let us consider if Esperanto is
really an artificial language on the phonetic level. It is artificial on the
lexical and syntax level, because different word stocks are mixed, different
affixes from different languages are taken and so on. However, on the phonetic
level Esperanto is in no way different from any natural language. Thus in this
respect it is quite a natural language. Its speech sounds are the same as the
speech sounds in the natural languages. Thus, from the point of view of
phonetics Esperanto is the same sort of object as any other natural language. It
has the same phonetic features as a natural language. Esperanto's speech sounds
may be classified in the same way as the speech sounds of any natural language.
What is your opinion? We are looking forward to hearing to both addresses, but
first of all to </FONT><A href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru"><FONT
size=3>yutamb@mail.ru</FONT></A><FONT size=3> Remain yours sincerely Yuri
Tambovtsev and Juliana Tambovtseva</FONT></FONT></SPAN></CENTER>
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