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Re: Rounded /j/?

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 7:10
Danny Wier wrote:
> Thanks, I forgot about that. Mandarin Chinese has it, in syllables such > as _yue_. So that's *three* languages I can think of.
Let me add a conlang. In Watya'i'sa, I've discovered that the cluster <wy> is usually a rounded /j/. I can't think of any examples off hand, but it occurs sometimes. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor