Re: Phonetic contrast between lenis unvoiced and lenis voiced?

From: Craoibhin66@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:54:27 -0700 (PDT)

On Oct 15, 6:45 pm, "ranjit_math...@xxxxxxxxx"
<ranjit_math...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Are there languages where it is the norm* to phonemically contrast
lenis voiced and lenis unvoiced stop phonemes?

Well, if I have understood my first text book of Eastern Armenian,
they have a three-way distinction: fortis vs. lenis unvoiced vs. lenis
voiced.

However, other descriptions insist that the distinction is the same as
in Georgian, i.e. fortis vs. ejective vs. lenis voiced.

.

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