Re: ng vs w

>From: alexandre lang <allexpro@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: ng vs w
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 19:41:07 -0500
>
>>From: Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
>>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>>Subject: Re: ng vs w
>>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 19:25:05 -0500
>>
>>On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, alexandre lang wrote:
>>
>> > * In this book I take my data from, Concise Compendium of the World's
>> > Languages, J and W are both sorted together as the only semi-vowles, so
>>i am
>> > thinking that if i have one, i should also have the other.
>>
>>I'm not sure about that one. To the best of my knowledge, German has /j/
>>but not /w/ (<w> being /v/).
>>
>>--
>>Tristan                  <kesuari@...>
>>
>>War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left.
>>                       - fortune.
>
>oh, i was refering to the languages who do have both. But i have found my
>mistake thanks to you, i was interpreting w as the english w since the IPA
>chart seems to have both, thank you.
>
>
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I have just readt throught the pages of Concise compendium of world's
languaes again and there seems to be a /v/ sorted in fricatives as well as a
/w/ sorted in semi-vowels, could anyone tell me the difference between both
as well as your opinions about /ng/ vs /w/


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