Timeline for Are there languages that disallow initial vowels and lack glottal stop?
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| Feb 20, 2018 at 5:57 | comment | added | brass tacks | I wonder if it has homorganic glide + vowel syllables though, like /ji/ and /wu/. Those seem to occur in Dyirbal, another Australian language that is said to have no syllable-initial vowels. | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 17:53 | history | edited | user6726 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 27, 2015 at 14:07 | comment | added | Gaston Ümlaut | But I'm sure there are plenty of other languages that require C initial syllables and don't have glottal stop, probably many such in Australia. | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 14:06 | comment | added | Gaston Ümlaut | I have the publication by Terry Klokeid and can confirm that Tharrkari (the spelling preferred by the people) syllables are all C initial. Also, it does not have glottal stop (few languages do in Western Australia). | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 5:38 | comment | added | brass tacks | So the language is Thargari? You might want to make that more clear in your first sentence. Doing a google search came up with this link which supports that all syllables in Thargary have an onset: books.google.com/… | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 1:32 | history | answered | user6726 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |