User talk:Rua/Archives/2015/September

Northern Sami 
I'm not going to push the point, but if your source for $⟨lj⟩$ being one phoneme is the paper of Bals, Odden, and Rice, what they have to say about it is that "the palatal lateral [ʎ,ʎʎ] is probably phonetically distinct from the sequence [lj]" — that is, never mind phonemics, the data is scant enough that they're not fully confident the difference exists at all! Those authors also studiously avoid using phoneme slashes // in the inventory section.

Anyway, statements about phonetics are intrinsically less POV than statements about phonemes, in that assigning phones to phonemes requires analysis and there are often multiple possible analyses. I was only trying to be cautious. 4pq1injbok (talk) 16:08, 13 September 2015 (UTC)