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Re: Critical (glottal) Stop

• From: "Sean M. Burke" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Critical (glottal) Stop
• Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:56:29 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

At 14:37 2002-06-12 -0700, Nancy Nielsen-Brown wrote:
>In preparing my vocabulary lists, I have been searching for word pairs in
>which a glottal stop (') is a single distinguishing point.  It is far too
>easy for me to miss the stop unless I give it a bit of "special attention".
>This is the list I've compiled - Are there any others I may have missed?

I'd expect that there wouldn't be many cases where ' contrasts with nil, 
because there are so few CV (or VC) roots in Klingon:
/tlhIngan-Hol/2002/February/msg00611.html
So I'd bet you've found them all, or at least most of them!

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Sean M. Burke    http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

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