Re: Streaming foreign languages was Re: Maltese Phonology

From: "Thomas Leigh" <thomas@...>

> Do they? You probably know a lot more Georgian than I do, but just judging
> by what I've heard, it sounds to me like they pronounce them (or most of
> them) but that they break up a lot of the consonant sequences with schwas.
> Although it does seem like /v/ has a marked tendency to get labialized
into
> /w/.
All I know of Georgian are from Hillery's online essay, an article on the
Georgian alphabet in that book at the library (can't remember the name), the
RFE/RL station, and some info from Gamkrelidze and Ivanov, as well as
Bomhard and Kerns.

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