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