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Re: new lang idea . . .

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 14:05
Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> How boring! Speaking of [x\] and similars, are there any languages beside > certain misguided variants of Swedish that actually use [x\] or other > "double" fricatives? X-SAMPA appears not to have symbols for any others.
None appear on the IPA chart. But it's important to note that IPA symbols (as distinct from symbols-with-diacritics) are only assigned when a phonetic difference is phonemic in some known language. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." --Isaac Newton