Re: permissible syllable codas in major world languages)?

Joachim Pense <snob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Same comments for German and Russian, except that both of these are
notable for a phonological constraint that devoices final plosives
and fricatives.

-h is not possible in German.

Nor is the glottal stop.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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