Re: Jaars IPA Helper

> Date:         Thu, 13 Jan 2000 01:03:05 CST
> From: "Daniel A. Wier" <dawier@...>
> Other languages with all unvoiced stops:
>
> Estonian (actually THREE classes of stops, all unvoiced)
>   (also many Uralic languages)
> Georgian (initial and final stops/affricates only
>   normally you have voiceless-ejective/voiceless-aspirated/voiced)
> Mandarin
> Punjabi (only because voiced/voiceless became low tone/high tone)
> Tibetan (but modern Tib. might not be so)
> Burmese (voiced allophones, maybe)
> Thai (again, possibly voiced allophones)
> Quechua (this time, ejective/aspirated/plain, all unvoiced)
>
> Any more I forgot?  Any wrong?
Danish --- voiceless plain (/bdg/) and voiceless aspirated (/ptk/)
initially. The distinction is neutralized intervocalically, where you
might find (murmured) voiced allophones --- you'd need someone who can
make spectrograms to say for sure.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)