Re: Big Six Revisited... again :/
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 28, 2000, 1:30 |
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:25:30 -0500, "Thomas R. Wier"
<artabanos@...> wrote:
>Why not a glottal stop? I'd say that's about as typologically common as
>[h] is.
Actually, Sagi /h/ and /r/ are uvular fricatives. I'm not sure that I'd
want to add a glottal stop as a distinctive phoneme. But in any case, it
occurs to me that the reason for requiring words to begin with a consonant
has to do with prefixing, which isn't often a problem with names, so I
suppose I don't need the initial "h" in names like Halbániya after all.
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