Re: whoops, another question -- pharyngealized consonants anyone?

Danny Wier wrote:
> Aw, I had it (it's in some book called the Cambridge Encyclopedia of
> Language or something like that).  Or else I'd be glad to type it.  It has
> over 100 consonants, easy; half of them are clicks.
92 consonants, made up of 47 clicks and 45 non-clicks.

> That same page shows Rotokas as having six consonants (for the record low),
> but someone told me it actually has eight, which would result in a tie with
> Hawai'ian.
Hmm, well, the six consonants the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
listed were /p/, /t/, /k/, /B/, /r/ (tap), and /G/.

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