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At 00:36 20.3.2004, Adam Walker wrote:
>C-a also derives/Z/ from /r_j/ as well as /l_j/.
>There is also /Z/ boroowed from Arabic words. With so
>many origins /Z/ ends up a rather common sound which
>suits me fine.
Well, /Z/ is rather *un*common in Persian, so I wanted
to keep it that way in R. Same goes for /l/, so that
most cases that might reasonably become palatalized in
Romance become /j/.
Does C-a by any chance have r/l merger?
/BP 8^)
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