From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 22:37:15 CST
> From: unicore-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicore-bounce@unicode.org]
On
> Behalf Of John Hudson
> Also, how certain are we -- or can we be -- that there may not be
other
> potential implosive letters...
In principle, the set of possible implosives is limited for articulatory
reasons: they must be voiced stops. So, the number of implosives is
limited to the number of contrastive points of articulation. I really
doubt you'll find another language written with Devanagari script that
has more than these four implosives.
Peter Constable
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