Re: poly-rhotics (was: Chinese Dialect Question)

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From: "Ray Brown" <ray.brown@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:16 AM
Subject: poly-rhotics (was: Chinese Dialect Question)


> On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 06:29 , John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Garth Wallace scripsit:
> >> JS Bangs wrote:
> >>> Mark J. Reed sikyal:
> >>>
> >>> Furthermore, most languages have exactly one rhotic
> >>
> >> Is this a universal, or are there some languages with more than one?
>
> Nope to first question - yep to the second.
>
> > Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese for sure.
>
> Not only Brazilian Portuguese either - the Portuguese of Portugal also has
> two, as does Catalan also.
>
> Welsh also has two: |r| which is trilled (usually apically, in some parts
> of the north, uvularly) and |rh| which is the aspirated/voiceless counter-
> part of the former.
I thought |rh| and |r| had merged in many areas, though...