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Re: My Apologies about Mysterious sounds

From:Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 9:22
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...

>Ben Poplawski wrote: > > >>For example, [T] is a rare sound but Greek has it. >> >> > >People say this, and it's true that it's not just everywhere. >But I can think of half a dozen or more languages off the top of my >head that have it. We should probably reserve the term "rare" to >sounds like glottalized interdental affricates, or some such. > > >

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Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...>
Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>[T] (was: My Apologies about Mysterious sounds)