>Ed Heil wrote:
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>> Aspirated and unaspirated AFFRICATES?
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>> God save the Phalerans from their consonants! :)
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>Yeah... I think I remember a precedent in Quechua (though
>I may be mistaken...).
They are fairly common in South and East Asia:
Almost all Modern Indo-Aryan languages
Tibetan
Korean
Many Chinese languages (incl. Mandarin)
Burmese used to have them, but converted them to aspirated FRICATIVES!
I'm sure they exist elsewhere as well.
/BP
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