Re: Velarization

On 5/26/07, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:

> Albanian comes to mind, although I haven't actually heard it spoken. But
> the sound written "ll" is supposed to be a velarized l.
Aha! Well,  Wikipedia agrees with you. They list a velarized and
non-velarized l.

On 5/27/07, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> Well, there's St'at'imcets, which has velarized /tS S l ?l/:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%27at%27imcets_language
Nifty!

On 5/27/07, Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote:
> 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.
I always see it referred to as pharyngealization, so I didn't know
about that. Interesting. That's precisely what I'm looking for.

Thank you everyone for your info!

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Katya