On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:38:00 +0000, m_iacomi <
m_iacomi@...> wrote:
> On another hand, one should note that Albanian /r/ is not at all
>pronounced like in Romanian & Italian but more like in English
>(say, in "frame" or "right", for not making it post-vocalic...).
The essential point is that Albanian has two rhotic phonemes (r and rr),
Romanian an Italian only one (Italian has geminated /rr/, but we're not
counting Italian geminates). That I had already counted.
Come to think of it, Spanish has /r/ and /rr/. It has two lateral
phonemes, and it has /T/ and /D/ too, like Albanian. Can the TRUTH BE that
Spanish Phonetic System is much closer to Albanian Phonetic System??? This
GREAT similarity could only be explained by a GENETIC LINK!
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...