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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/ -- "Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." -- Joseph Wood Krutch http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ ICQ #: 18656696 AOL screen-name: NikTailor