[T] (was: My Apologies about Mysterious sounds)

On Tuesday, October 5, 2004, at 10:27 , Chris Bates wrote:

> I get English, Spanish (well, one dialect of Spanish... the rest just
> pronounce it s)...
Castilian Spanish

>  *thinks* what else am I missing? I know there are
> lots more... Arabic has it doesn't it? I might be wrong about that one...
No, you are right - Arabic has both [T] and [D].

What else?
Obviously modern Greek, with which this topic began.
Icelandic, Welsh (also Cornish), Swahili, Luo (a Nilotic lang of Uganda &
Kenya), Burmese....

I'm sure that's not an exhaustive list. I would be surprised, for example,
  if it never occurred in any of the native American langs.

>
>> Ben Poplawski wrote:
>>
>>
>>> For example, [T] is a rare sound but Greek has it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> People say this, and it's true that it's not just everywhere.
>> But I can think of half a dozen or more languages off the top of my
>> head that have it.  We should probably reserve the term "rare" to
>> sounds like glottalized interdental affricates, or some such.

Ray
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