Re: Rounded /j/?

At 20:50 29/03/99 -0300, you wrote:
>Is there any natlang with a rounded palatal approximant?
>I mean, the * in the series /i, u, y/ :: /j, w, */.
>I know the sound is perfectly possible, but I wonder
>if this sound is an independent phoneme in any natlang.
>
        French. The 'u' in 'nuit' or 'lui' for instance. I've heard that some
sino-tibetan languages have it also, but I don't know which ones.

>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>--Pablo Flores
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