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Re: Velarization

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>
Date:Sunday, May 27, 2007, 16:25
On 27.5.2007 Herman Miller wrote:
> Arabic has a whole set of "emphatic" consonants, which isn't exactly > what you're looking for, but similar. >
It may be. The emphatics are velarized in some dialects and pharyngealized in others. If I understood my source right there is even some idiolectal variation. BTW some varieties of Swedish have what boils down to a three-way distinction between /s`_G/~/s`/~/s\/.

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