> Eric Christopherson wrote:
> >Wu too? I was originally under the impression that the only languages which
> >had them were a few Indic languages and Igbo. I got this from a page
> >maintained by former Conlang member Tom Wier,
> >
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~twier/mimungsociety/mimungglottalic.html :
> >
> >> Only six
> >> of the world's languages have the so-called "voiced aspirates"
> >> [bh dh gh] at all. Five are in India (all modern reflexes of Sanskrit);
> >> the sixth is Igbo in Africa.
> >
> >But upon browsing Ladegefod's _Preliminaries to Phonology_ (or something
> >like that anyway), I came across more examples of them, which Ladegefod
> >calls "murmured stops." And now John says Wu... hmm. Perhaps the
> traditional
> >PIE reconstruction really isn't so weird after all.>
>
> Come to think of it, Madurese of Indonesia has voiced aspirates, at least in
> the romanized spelling (probably transliterated from a Javanese/Sanskritized
> script); but I've never heard the lang. and suspect they may just be
> "breathy" or very lax(and in any case not historical), as are the plain
> voiced stops (for many speakers) of neighboring Javanese. Interesting
> sidebar: Javanese students frequently had trouble hearing "normal" voiced
> stops (like Engl. or other regional langs.) and tended to call them
> "preglottalized".