uvular R

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 7770
Date: 2001-07-01

Piotr:
>In Maddieson's (1984) fairly representative database of 317 >languages, 74
>(23.3%) have no phonemes classified as rhotic.

Oh good... a quarter. I thought it was rarer than that. Good,
then my thoughts on a rhotic-less Pre-NWC and its Eastern European
derivative is not impossible, at least in a technical sense.
Eeeeeeexcelent.

- gLeN
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