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African dialect uses unexpected sound

A sound that linguists said was absent from human language turns up in a southern African dialect.

 

References:

Zsiga, E., and O. Tlale. 1998. Labio-coronal fricatives in Sengwato. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 104(September):1779.

 

Sources:

One Tlale
University of Botswana
Private Bag 0022
Gabarone
Botswana

Elizabeth Zsiga
Georgetown University
Department of Linguistics
37th and O Sts.
Washington, DC 20057

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 18, October 31, 1998, p. 284.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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