Re: debt, doubt, island, sword and dielects.
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 10, 1999, 20:30 |
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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 21:10:17 -0500 i wrote:
> There's also at least another dialect, where [B] has merged with /v/
> and [P] has merged with /f/, but i don't know that much about it
> yet. It might be the same dialect, or another, which reduces the
> vowels to the five cardinals. There's also a dialect that doesn't
> distinguish the emphatics (pharyngealized) {x z} from their
> non-emphatic counterparts /t s/, which could be the same dialect,
> sometimes stigmatized as being "lazy".
.
Ooops...forgot about also {q}, emphatic counterpart of /k/.
> -Stephen (Steg)
> "Eze-guvdhab wa'hrikh-a tze, / "zhoutzii wa'esh," i eze-mwe."
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