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I am told that the phonemes of the language of Priest-Kings,
or better, what in their language would correspond to phonemes in ours, since
their ‘phonemes’ have to do with scent and not sound, number seventy-three.
Their number is, of course, potentially infinite, as would the number of
possible phonemes in English…."
"…just as we take a subset of sounds to be English sounds and form our
utterances from them, so they take a subset of odors as similarly basic to their
speech. The number of English phonemes, incidentally, is in the neighborhood of
fifty."
"…the phonemes of the language of Priest-Kings…number
seventy-three."
"The number of English phonemes, incidentally, is in the neighborhood of
fifty."
Priest-Kings
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