Re: Development of Consemitic Bilabial Emphatic

 --- Ian Spackman wrote:
> Do linguolabials occur in natlangs?  I've not come across them, nor a
> reference to how to represent them, say, in IPA, but they seem very
> easy to pronounce and quite distinctive-sounding, so it surprises me.
My understanding is that they do occur, but in a very small number of
languages - possibly only a single language family, New Guinea perhaps,
but my memory is not quite precise enough.  I forget how they're
represented in IPA, but I think there is a way.

Estel

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