Re: Devoicing of initial consonants
| From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 24, 2002, 2:19 |
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In a message dated 01/22/02 11:42:49 PM, isaacp@UKR.NET writes:
<< Still there is a question --
Does any natlang have INITIAL devoicing of consonants? >>
If you mean initial only, I can't think of one. But Georgian (supposedly)
devoices consonants initially and finally. Also, Scots Gaelic devoices *all*
unmutated voiced stops and aspirates the already unvoiced.
~Danny~
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