Re: Phonology and Questions

Marcus Smith <smithma@...> wrote:

>> The apostrophe marks glottalisation, as in Quecha. lh represents the lateral
>> fricative, as found in Nahuatl.
Nahuatl has a fricative and an affricate of that kind, am I right?

>I've heard it said that Japanese is developing distinct voiceless vowels, but
>I've never seen the evidence for this.  They are clearly there when you hear a
>native speaker talk, but they seem to be predictable.
All native and non-native speakers I've had contact with
agree that they seem to appear predictably between unvoiced
consonants, or in final position after an unvoiced consonant.


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