Re: Chinese Dialect Question

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:38:41 +0200 Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> writes:
> En réponse à James Campbell :
>
>
> >A conlang that differentiated between 3 Rs would be kinda cool...
>
> Maggel distinguishes between [r], [r\], [R] and [4], and has also
> palatalised versions of them (except maybe [R], which seems only
> marginally
> phonemic. But it's not completely sure). They are phonemic (and you
> cannot
> even say [r] is a long version of [4], because Maggel has geminates
> for all
> of the rhotics too :))) ).
yxnomk atpukno ujklevt has quite a few...
[r], [4], [r\], [Z], [r`], [r\`], [R\], [R], palatal trill, uvular
approximate...
i just recently discovered that i need to make some minimal pairs for
[h_j] and [j_h]... maybe |qqae| /hja/ 'here' and |xtga| /jha/ 'there'
would be a good one?

> Christophe Grandsire.
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