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Risto Kupsala scripsit:
> Pandunia sources something like top 40 languages of the world by
> number of speakers. In that group voicing contrast is definitely the
> most frequent one of the contrasts that you listed. Pandunia
> contrasts voiced unaspirated stops with voiceless aspirated stops in
> order to satisfy the two most important contrasts.
Xuxuxi has a three-way contrast: voiceless aspirated stops, voiced
unaspirated stops or fricatives, voiceless fricatives. Thus
the consonants are p b f, t d s, k g x, plus m n l r.
> Finnish doesn't have the voicing contrast,
Except t/d.
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