Re: Mystery Phoneme
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 1, 2004, 23:24 |
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At 05:50 29.1.2004, John Quijada wrote:
>languages where /N\/ occurs as a phoneme and not an allophone of /n/ (as
>Dirk suggested it could be) [N\]? What are those languages, and how do they
>represent the sound?
Greenlandic AFAIK uses _nq_. Funnily it also uses _r_
for /R/, under Danish influence, although the sound
does not pattern as a liquid in the language.
/BP 8^)
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