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Conlang-related chat tends to take place at [http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/index.php the ZBB] - but you probably already knew that. --[[User:Vlad|Vlad]] 21:39, 12 Sep 2004 (PDT)
 
:I tend to get my conlang-related chat from [[List of mailing lists|mailing lists]] instead of web boards... actually I don't go by the ZBB at all.  Maybe I should check it out?  —[[User:Muke|Muke Tever]] | [[User Talk:Muke|✎]] 05:53, 13 Sep 2004 (PDT)
 
Useless definitions being added, see [[Linux.definition]], [[PHP.definition]], [[Av.definition]].
 
:Deleted.  If the contributor wants them back, they can login and explain what relevance they have here.  —[[User:Muke|Muke Tever]] | [[User Talk:Muke|✎]] 05:53, 13 Sep 2004 (PDT)
 
== Glottal stop vs. null consonant ==
 
What is the difference? Is the null consonant actually an abbreviation of the glottal stop? (By null consonant I mean the "consonant" before the vowel in [a].) Are there languages which exhibit a minimal pair between the two? I know that certain dialects of Japanese have minimal pairs for [pʔi] and [pi] and similar. - [[User:Zhen Lin|刘 (劉) 振霖]] 04:46, 17 Sep 2004 (PDT)
 
:I believe that some Polynesian or Pacific languages contrast initial [ʔa] and [a].  I believe in languages that do so the glottal stop is generally more distinctively pronounced than the non-phonemic use of glottal stop in other languages.  Alternately to emphasize glottalless [a] one would use a vocalic onglide, such as [ḁa] or [a̯a].  —[[User:Muke|Muke Tever]] | [[User Talk:Muke|✎]] 07:42, 17 Sep 2004 (PDT)
 
Some Tibetan dialects distinguish what is allegedly either /ʔ/ and zero or /ʔ/ and /ɦ/.  Against the /ɦ/ hypothesis speaks that
Hindi speakers '''don't''' hear the Tibetan  འ as [ɦ].  OTOH the
Lhasa dialect, which is kind of standard, has merged the two as
/ʔ/ with the following vowel in high or low tone.  Possibly it is
/ʔ/ vs. /ɰ/ since Tibetan has /x/ as well, or the realization of
'zero' differs across dialects.  [[User:Melroch|BPJ]] 12:50, 10 May 2005 (PDT)

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