Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 2, 2003, 19:27 |
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James> A conlang that differentiated between 3 Rs would be kinda cool...
Christophe> Maggel distinguishes between [r], [r\], [R] and [4], and has also
Christophe> palatalised versions of them (except maybe [R], which seems only
Christophe> marginally phonemic. But it's not completely sure). They are
Christophe> phonemic (and you cannot even say [r] is a long version of [4],
Christophe> because Maggel has geminates for all of the rhotics too :))) ).
Right. Allow me to expand upon James' statement. "An
*otherwise-sane* conlang that differentiated between 3+ Rs would be kinda
cool."
:)
-Mark
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