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Re: Labial zones (and some info on my lang)

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Monday, September 13, 1999, 21:32
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Ed Heil wrote:

> Though of languages which have only one bilabial, it's often "b" > rather than "p" -- e.g. Arabic) (unlike other places of articulation > where the unvoiced is more common -- t rather than d and so on). >
Yes, that's why I added /b/ - I guess that in those cases where there's /b/ but not /p/, the voice-voiceless distinction isn't phonemic. I was interested by the mention of languages that have only nasal labials (/m/ etc.) - is this on the surface, or someone's analysis of a kind of deep structure, like the frequent attempts at analysiing all the vowels in a language away? Boudewijn Rempt | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt