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From: "Kristian Jensen" <kljensen@...>
> LeoMoser wrote:
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> >This would imply that [gw-] may not be very
> >common beyond the western European area.
>
> You managed to cite Chinese. Though in Chinese it is unvoiced not like in
> IEuropean I presume.
In Mandarin, yes. Also in many but not all
of the other "Dialects" (Sinitic languages.)
> Some mainland SEAsian langs have them too. Some langs
> from the Americas have them (though I have only seen the unvoiced ones
like
> Chinese). -kristian- 8)
>