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From:Rob Nierse <rnierse@...>
Date:Friday, April 5, 2002, 7:40
| Danny Wier wrote:
|
| > By the way, what non-Klingon, non-Caucasian languages contain
| > the consonant phoneme or phone /qX/ (or even /GR/)?
|
| Haha! I know that! That's got to be Dutch! :)

In Quechua the Cuzco dialect also has the distinction between /q/, /qh/ and /q'/.
I just listened to a tape and I hear /qhawa/ 'see' as [qXhawa]

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Danny Wier <dawier@...>