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Re: Chinese Dialect Question

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Friday, October 3, 2003, 8:20
Staving Garth Wallace:
>JS Bangs wrote: >>Mark J. Reed sikyal: >> >>Furthermore, most languages have exactly one rhotic > >Is this a universal, or are there some languages with more than one?
Spanish, I believe, has both a tap [4] and a trill [r]. Khangaþyagon has both these as well, with [r] being regarded as a geminate of [4] - this is reflected in the Latin orthography, where [4] is written as r and [r] is written as rr, and in the Bukhstav runes where [r] is written as the rune for [4] follwed by a "gemination rune". Pete