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Re: Chinese Dialect Question

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Friday, October 3, 2003, 16:23
At 19:42 2.10.2003, Roger Mills wrote:


>Some Dravidian languages (and I think Proto Drav.) have 3, dental, alveolar >and retroflex.
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