Re: the sound [a]
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 14:03 |
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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