| From: | Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 21, 2004, 13:22 |
Andreas wrote: "A pecularity of Swedish 'j' and 'v' is that a vowel preceeding the former (within the same morpheme) is always short, and one preceeding the later is always long. The only exception I can think of in my 'lect is the loan _kaviar_ ['kavjar`]." Swedish has retroflexes? Swedish has retroflexes! ... Does this prove the Swedish-Chinese link? ;) Or is [r`] only phonetic? :| Oh well, at least there are the tones... T
| Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> | |
| Emily Zilch <emily0@...> | Retroflexion in Swedish & Sino-Tibetan |