Re: The World Atlas of Language Structures

On Apr 25, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Paul Bennett wrote:

> The World Atlas of Language Structures is now available for free
> online, in a nifty Google Maps powered form.
>
> http://www.wals.info/
>
> I cannot succinctly explain it, except to place it at least on the
> same level as STARLING, IEIOL, indo-european.nl, and the Rosetta
> Project on my list of awesome linguistics resources.
Indeed it is cool! But it says that Spanish shows voicing contrast in
fricatives and not plosives :/

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