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, I forgot about that.  Mandarin Chinese has it, in syllables such
as _yue_.  So that's *three* languages I can think of.

Danny
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