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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Dear LinguistList members, Our corpora of 158 languages
showed the most vocalo-sonarant
languages.</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Vocalo-sonorant quotient is the total of the vowels and
sonorant consonants in the sound speech chain. We obtaine the data on 158 world
languages.</FONT> </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=4>Vocalo-sonorant quotient turned out to be bigger in the following
language taxa: Sino-Tibetan family (Burmese</FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=4> - 75.67%), Bantu (Swahili </FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=4>- 76.29%), Afro-Asian family
(Neo-Aramaic</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=4>-
81.47%), Austronesian family (Hawaiian</FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=4>- 83.29%), languages of Australian
aboriginals- Nungubuyu</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT
size=4>- 85.14%). It means that 85.14% of the Nungubuyu speech sound chain
consists of vowels and sonorant consonants. Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia
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