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Re: Mutable R's

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 3:37
From: "Arthaey Angosii"

> I've always been under the impression that there's only one rhotic in > Asha'ille, originally [r\] as per my first e-mail. The alveolar trill > _might_ be phonemic in a very small percentage of the lexicon, but then > again it might just be an allophone appearing only in loanwords.
I believe Armenian has exactly those two r-type consonants: /r/ and /r\/. According to the description I saw. Albanian and Spanish have /r:/ and /r/. There's a sense of "strong r" and "weak r" here, or "single r" and "double r".

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Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>