Re: Liking German

Quoting Heather Rice <florarroz@...>:

> Is there such a thing as a sound being especially full
> of a certain language, seemingly to hold all the
> essence of that language?
Not acoustically, but certain sounds certainly are associated
within some cultures with certain languages.  German always gets
singled out for having /x/, but it's rarely realized that /C/ is
used at least as often, and perhaps much more so, than /x/.  German
is nowhere near as "gutteral" (to use a fairly linguistically empty
term) as, say, Atkan Aleut or Central Siberian Yupik. Those languages
have ungodly numbers of uvular stops and fricatives.

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