Re: Language "laws"?

Roger Mills wrote:
> Ray Brown wrote:
>
>
>>I can think of languages that have /s/ but no other fricatives; but I
>>cannot think of any with just /T/. However, I don't see why at some stage
>>a lonely [s] could not have changed to [T]....
>>...in fact I would not be unduly surprised if a language were
>>found with /T/ as its only fricative.
>
>
> IIRC you or someone else mentioned Burmese, which has [T] reflecting *s; it
> may also have [s] from some other source, but I don't know.
Yes, it has /s/ from former alveopalatals.

/BP 8^)
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