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Re: Velarization, uvularization, pharyngealization

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Sunday, January 28, 2007, 23:09
In a message dated 1/28/2007 6:57:37 AM Central Standard Time,
conlang@MELROCH.SE writes:


> BTW, doesn't /q/ rather much function as the emphatic > counterpart of /k/ in Semitic languages. (Steg, are > you here?) >
I think /q/ is just further back in the throat than /k/, not an emphatic version of it. stevo

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Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>