Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 3, 2003, 0:15 |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 21:41:42 +0200, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
>En réponse à Mark J. Reed :
>
>
>>Right. Allow me to expand upon James' statement. "An
>>*otherwise-sane* conlang that differentiated between 3+ Rs would be kinda
>>cool."
>>
>>:)
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>Which raises a question: can you have a conlang which distinguishes 3 or
>more rhotics and still call it sane? ;)))))
>
>Christophe Grandsire.
There's got to be sóme Zireen language out there that distinguishes 3
rhotics; I just don't know about it yet. One of the stereotypical Zireen
sounds is [r\`], which often has some friction and approaches [z`] (but
isn't a sibilant). So it wouldn't be surprising to find a language with a
trill, a tap, and this fricativish-approximant as distinctive sounds. If
you count voiceless r's, there could easily be langs with 4 or more: [r_0]
and [r\`_0] are definitely found in Zireen languages.
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