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| sebngwa3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6164 days ago 200 posts - 217 votes  Speaks: Korean*, English | Message 1 of 4 19 November 2009 at 9:23pm | IP Logged |
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What are some of the languages that does not have Alveolar flap? I can think of German and Mandarin.
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| Me has to learn Groupie Germany Joined 5557 days ago 64 posts - 75 votes Speaks: German* | Message 2 of 4 19 November 2009 at 11:05pm | IP Logged |
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You mention German. In northern regions you often hear, aside from the standard pronunciation of the 't', a tap in words like 'Mutter' or 'Bitte'.
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| sebngwa3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6164 days ago 200 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Korean*, English | Message 3 of 4 20 November 2009 at 12:34am | IP Logged |
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I see. Thanks for the correction.
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 4 of 4 04 December 2009 at 2:11am | IP Logged |
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Off the top of my head, I know that French (except in Quebec and southern France), Hawaiian, Cree and Cherokee also lack the /ɾ/ phoneme. You know you're a language nerd when...
Many dialects of English lack it as well, but not mine. I, like most North Americans, say /læɾɚ/ for 'latter' and 'ladder', though this is not the case in English Received Pronunciation for instance. Edited by Levi on 04 December 2009 at 2:15am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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