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Re: the lonely affricate

From:Josh Roth <fuscian@...>
Date:Thursday, June 24, 1999, 20:19
In a message dated 6/24/1999 11:53:29 AM, Ajshinav@g26.ethz.ch writes:

>A question: does anyone know of any language which has a "j" sound -- [dZ] >-- >but no "ch" -- [tS]? One of the peculiarities (there aren't many) of=20
Arov=EBn's
>phonetics is that it has just one affricate, although it's otherwise pretty >well rounded-out as far as consonants go:
Arabic has /dZ/ but no /tS/. I don't think it has any other affricates.. Josh Roth http://memers.aol.com/fuscian