Re: History of French

From: Miguel Carrasquer (mcv_at_wxs.nl)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 22:29:13 +0200

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:06:02 -0700, Jacques Guy
<jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote:

>Mxsmanic wrote:
>
>> Peter T. Daniels writes:
>
>> > That would make it a click.
>
>> Does any language use it as such?
>
>Not to my knowledge.
>
>> It seems labor-intensive to
>> pronounce.
>
>Do you realize how labor-intensive an
>interlabial trill is? (it's a raspberry)
>Yet it exists in several languages/dialects
>of Malakula.

Also very common in child-speak.

=======================
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@wxs.nl

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