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From owner-vms-list@voynich.net  Thu Jan 27 02:07:43 2005
Message-ID: <41F868EB.3090102@mail.msen.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:07:07 -0500
From: Bruce Grant <bgrant@mail.msen.com>
To: vms-list@voynich.net
Subject: Re: VMs: Welsh/Cornish
References: <200501251016.j0PAGP3m028313@pop2.alphalink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200501251016.j0PAGP3m028313@pop2.alphalink.com.au>

Jacques Guy wrote:

> Piraha (three vowels, seven consonants in the men's speech,
> six consonants only in the women's)
  
Could you expand on this a little? Do women have a different vocabulary 
in Piraha, or do they replace the "men-only" consonant with a different 
one? Or do they just have to choose their words carefully? Is it some 
kind of a tabu?

Bruce