Re: [tied] Stative/Perfect; Indo-European /r/

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "aquila_grande"
<aquila_grande@...> wrote:

>
> I need some advice: My son has got a girlfriend that uses UVULAR

R.

> As a firm believer in the traditional apical trill, I find it
> mandatory to deuvularize her speach and hinder my comming
> grandchildren from picking up this uvular sound. Does anybody have
> any advice of what i can do?
>
>
> By the way, the Inuits in Greenland are heavily users of uvular R

in

> their language. I am sure the Danish uvular R is from massive

Inuit

> influence, since Greenland got under Danish administration.

A nice demonstration of traditional beliefs in southern
Scandinavia. /R/ is 'bonnig' "peasant-like", in Sweden in particular
Scanian. A large part of southern Sweden seems to have been occupied
by Inuits too.

Torsten