Re: Cliks
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 24, 2003, 0:45 |
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At 11:45 21.3.2003 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Sindhi implosives, e.g.
>arise out of breathy-voiced sounds.
No, they arose out of plain voiced sounds so as to make them more distinct
from breathy-voiced sounds.
Ironically the language has later re-acquired plain voiced stops through
loan words.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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