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Re: Chinese Dialect Question

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Thursday, October 2, 2003, 18:32
Garth Wallace wrote:
> > JS Bangs wrote: > > Mark J. Reed sikyal: > > > > Furthermore, most languages have exactly one rhotic > > Is this a universal, or are there some languages with more than one?
It's a universal tendency, but not an absolute. There are languages with no rhotics, and some with more than one. Spanish is perhaps the best-known example of a language with two rhotics, having both the tap {r} and the trill {rr} -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42