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From: lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee)
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Subject: Re: Infinite alphabets - (Turing via Berke)
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 08:34:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 08:34:59 1987
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Alphabets are often close to phoneme systems.  They may have characters
for allophones, however.  Karl Menge in his book on Turkish grammar
mentions the Orkhon script of a Turkic dialect which had different
signs for most consonants, depending on whether they occur in front
or back harmonic words.  Judging from Turkish and following the
conventional view, these were probably allophones.
	Greg Lee, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu