Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 3, 2003, 8:20 |
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Staving Garth Wallace:
>JS Bangs wrote:
>>Mark J. Reed sikyal:
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>>Furthermore, most languages have exactly one rhotic
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>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