Re: Revising my consonant inventory
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 13, 2007, 14:55 |
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John Vertical wrote:
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>>I have one more question, is /?_h/ possible, or would that become /h/ within
>>minutes?
>
> Theoretically possible, but just as rare as an aspirated ejectiv (ie. not
> attested at all in the wild AFAIK.)
According to the Chinese linguist, Yuen Ren Chao, it occurs in the
Yunnan dialect of Mandarin. In that dialect Mandarin /k/ (Pinyin _g_) is
pronounced [?], and /k_h/ (Pinyin _k_) is pronounced [?_h]
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