Re: tilde Re: Number of writing systems

El Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:18:14 +0200, "Marco Cimarosti" <marco_cimarosti@...> escribió:

>> I have the impression that English's alveolar "dentals" are almost
>> unique in the world. I haven't seen them attributed to Spanish before.
>
>In fact, that sounded strange to me too, but I didn't grasp your comment
>was on the phonetic side.

Yes, in Spain, for example, the <n> is mostly pronounced and conceived strictly as an alveolar phoneme (see for example D.R.A.E). I've heard that a minuscule minority pronounces this phoneme as a dental-alveolar, but never dental, no way.

Regards,
Agustín Barahona