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Re: the sound [a]

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 14:03
On Mon, 03 May 2004 18:40:39 -0700, Akhilesh Pillalamarri
<valardil@...> wrote:

> Everywhere I've read, it says the sound [a] is the most common sound in > human speech; my personal experience with language agrees with that. I > wonder now, is the sound [a] found in every language?
What I learned was that no one sound is found in every language. I used to have a chart somewhere with various frequencies of sounds. ISTR /a/ was quite high up there. I do remember that if a language has nasals, it will have at least /n/ but that's not what you were asking about. Paul