Re: retroflex consonants
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 4:29 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
> Well I appreciate the feedback on this topic! I should've mentioned this,
> but I did know of quite a few cases of retroflexes in natlangs (and one
> conlang, Klingon). I'm doing a survey, in a way.
>
> So far I have:
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> American English (r)
> Swedish, Norwegian (most dialects, r + dental)
......
>Most Indic languages (t., d., t.h, d.h, n., s., sometimes l.)
Ya left out Modern Javanese (d., t. only); Old Jav., full of Skt. loans, had
the full Indic complement.
>
> Conlangs:
> Klingon (D, S)
> Tsolyani?
>
Gwr (tr (like Vietnamese), d.l. (romanized |ll|), 3^ (vowel, roman. |r|)
At present I have /tr, dl/ < *{t,d}VrV[+str](C) and
/r/ < all intermediate **CVr < *CVCVr (with exceptions of course)
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