Re: beyond langauges

--- jouppe <jouppe@...> wrote:

> Here is a nice link:
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit_language#phonology

> Three kinds of /tl/ phonemes (unmarked, aspirated
> and ejective), all
> three phonemes seems to be voiceless affricates.
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton"
> <dmilt1896@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Spanish tlanguis "public market," also in the
> form
> > > tianguis

> > Not sure a word borrowed from Nahuatl counts.

And the TI- spelling (and pronunciation?)seems to
vastly outnumber TL-.

True but it's still out there and Mexicans have no
problems pronouncing /tl/ in place names such as
Tlaquepaque and Tlatelolco. I'm sure that in Mexican
Spanish there must be other /tl-/ words.


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