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Re: CHAT: affricates/grammar help/intransitivity/free word order

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 29, 2004, 17:11
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From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>


> Don't forget the lovely-sounding [tK)] in the Central American > languages, e.g. at the end of the name Quetzlcoatl. > > -Marcos
Ooh, that's a sound in Teonaht, but I never really thought about it! It's also a rare affricate, as it was too often confused with the /kl/ cluster. But it does come in the middle of some words, such as atla, and bitlo, etc. Initially, it sounds too much like klea and klama. Sally