Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 2, 2003, 17:42 |
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Garth Wallace wrote:
> 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?
Some Dravidian languages (and I think Proto Drav.) have 3, dental, alveolar
and retroflex.
Malayo-Polynesian languages allow the reconstruction of at least two, one
symbolized *r (presumably dental/alv.), the other *R (presumably a velar).
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