Re: Linguistic Terminology
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Monday, January 4, 1999, 1:00 |
lucasso wrote:
> till europeans(and americans) came japanese /S/ was an allophone of
> /s/ (which used to occure only before /i/), new words (especially
> english based ones) have changed it into new phonem...
No, IIRC, there are borrowings from Chinese which contain /Sa/, /So/,
and /Su/
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