<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18975">
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dear colleagues, can we think that in primitive
that is seminal languages the speech sounds were also simple? I compared the
frequency of occurrence of speech sounds of some 300 languages which I have in
my phonetics corpora and came to the conclusion that simple phonemes occur more
frequently and in more world languages. Is there any law under it or is it just
a chance? And what is a chance in a language speech chain? Looking forward to
hearing from you to <A href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</A> Be
well, Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>