Re: The beautifulest phonology

czHANg wrote:
> >Next thing you know, someone mentions uvulars and retroflexes...
>::shudder::
>
>     HEY there! Whats wrong with a _few_ retroflexes, i.e. /t'/ /d'/ /l'/
>!!!
Hey there yourself! We're definitely in need of [s`], [z`] and [n`] too, not
to mention the compulsory retroflex trill, which I think is [r`] in X-SAMPA.

(Of the above-mentioned retroflexes, only [l`] is absent in my dialect,
altho' [z`] and [r`] are allophones of the same phoneme /r/.)

                                                   Andreas

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