Re: My Apologies about Mysterious sounds

Isaac A. Penzev wrote:

>Chris Bates wrote:
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>>I get English, Spanish (well, one dialect of Spanish... the rest just
>>pronounce it s)... *thinks* what else am I missing? I know there are
>>lots more... Arabic has it doesn't it? I might be wrong about that one...
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>I can add Arabic, Swahili, Mn Greek, Bashkir, Turkmen (not sure about this
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>ObConlang: I didn't find /T/ or [T] in any of my projects, tho it still has
>a chance to be introduced back into P4 - a Semitic conlang, but for now a
>Proto-Semitic */T/ is reflected as /s/ like in Ethiopic lgs. Don't ask me
>why. I don't find this particular sound too attractive.
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On second thoughts I'm not sure if Swahili had T before it started
borrowing from Arabic... but the words that pop into my head with T in,
like some of the numerals, are certainly borrowings from Arabic. I do
think that (relatively) small number of native speakers, a couple of
million people, pronounce T properly at least, although D --> d often I
think, but the majority of fluent Swahili speakers, who speak it as a
second language, tend to get it wrong.