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Re: Chinese Dialect Question

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, October 2, 2003, 17:42
Garth Wallace wrote:

> 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?
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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