Re: Linguistics: Final /?/ and /h/

Rob Haden wrote:
>
> Recently I discussed word-final /?/ and /h/ with someone on another list.
> We were talking about how common those phonemes are in word-final
> position.  I argued that they are not very common cross-linguistically,
> but
> the other person said that they are.  Does anyone know here?
>
My gut feeling would be that /?/ is probably "fairly common", /h/ much less
so, but I couldn't really cite any statistics.

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