Re: CHAT: Humor, inter alia

Josh Brandt-Young wrote:

> >I think I've read somewhere, though, that [b] and [g] occur
> >allophonicly.
> >FWIW.
>
> My fairly in-depth studies of Finnish have never revealed the presence of
> [b] or [g] in *any* circumstances whatsoever in native words.
Sounds good, but I'm going to go check my sources and get back to
you if I find anything to the contrary.

>  This would, then, seem to be a language with three
> phonemic nasals [m] [n] [N] and *no* voiced oral stops.
>
> Pretty odd.
Yep.  This I suspect would be one of those unusual languages on one
of the extremes of the bellcurve that I alluded to in another post.


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