Aspirated & non-aspirated plosives (was: easy sounds)
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 7, 2005, 7:27 |
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On Thursday, January 6, 2005, at 12:23 , Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> Emaelivpeith # 1:
[snip]
>> And also if there are natlangs where aspirated and non-aspirated
>> consonants
>> are different phonemes
[snip]
> Also from Wikipedia: "In many languages, such as Hindi/Urdu, Mandarin,
> Korean, Icelandic and Ancient Greek, /t/ and /tʰ/ are different
> phonemes altogether."
..as well as Scots Gaelic, Zulu and Xhosa inter_alia. The same of course
goes for /k/ and /kʰ/ and for /p/ and /pʰ/ in these and the above
languages.
Ray
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