Re: The World Atlas of Language Structures

Which is *almost* exactly backwards... Lessee. p/b, t/d, k/g; f but no
v, s but no z, tS but no dZ in most dialects: /Z/ but no /S/ in some.
Some dialects do have T vs D (the latter as an allophone of /d/), and
most have x vs G (/g/)



On 4/25/08, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:
> 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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