Re: Rating Languages
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Thursday, September 27, 2001, 22:25 |
Steve Kramer wrote:
> Actually, this is kind of cool, since it gives me a reason of sorts to drop [g]
> out of Simafira, but not the other voiced stops, [b] and [d].
In Uatakassi, geminate /gg/ is usually realized as [Ng]. /bb/ and /dd/
are occasionally realized as [mb] or [nd], but its not nearly as common,
and is stigmatized (however, most dialects did change those to mb and
nd). But, even the most pedantic speaker uses [Ng] fairly often.
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