Re: Pharingials, /l/ vs. /r/ in Southeast Asia
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 4, 2004, 5:41 |
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Nik Taylor scripsit:
> Chinese (Mandarin, at least, I believe other languages) have both. The
> inventor of Volapuk was simply mistaken on the "r" issue.
Well, Mandarin does have /r/, but it is nothing like [r], which is
probably what he was expecting. And the other Sinitic languages
don't have anything resembling /r/ at all.
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